Word: nationalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends, and comrades of a sacred fellowship, and fathers, most of you, of sons and daughters who are to be your crown and joy or your voiceless despair, I summon you to the comradeship of helping to make Washington safer for our homes here and the homes of the Nation everywhere. I do this for the sake of making the most beautiful flag in all the world 'a stainless flag' before the eyes of all the world. I do this for the sake of the Constitution. ... I do it for the sake of the ideals that must control...
...Germany took advantage of her fall in currency to put all her large industrial plants in order, and is now ready for producing goods on a large scale capacity, greater than any other nation. A high tariff is the only protection the United States has to offset, for, if it is lowered, the high-waged American worker will meet the direct competition of the low-waged German. "As a Democrat, I think it is impossible to change the present tariff...
...President informed newsgatherers that in his opinion, a unanimous vote of the Council of the League of Nations is necessary for requesting an advisory opinion from the World Court. Ergo any nation represented on the Council can object and thus prevent the question at issue from being submitted to the World Court. The U.S., declared President Coolidge, is seeking by means of Reservation Five to secure for itself only an equality with nations seated on the League Council...
...hands and went before Congress when Ambassador Berenger and I signed it. Of course, I advocate its ratification. It would be a poor agreement indeed if the man who wrote it did not support it. "Nobody expects the United States to try to ruin financially any nation which is trying to discharge her obligations...
...working classes will suffer, but we are sure all classes will support the Government. Italy is primarily a nation of the middle classes, which must be taken care of first, even though the richer classes and the proletariat suffer...