Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer can the assurance of the old refrain, "All's quiet along the Potomac", ring throughout the bustling cities and peaceful hamlets of the land. For an open insurrection mars the tranquillity of the nation's capital in a manner not connected with the usual Congressional disturbances. Probably most people who read the Vice President's demands of last month that his sister be given the social privileges which go to his wife thought the matter would be allowed to end then and there...
...social prerogatives of this second highest honor of our democracy, it also shows that in the land of equal opportunity where any native may aspire to the Presidency, none but the legal spouse of the Vice President can enjoy undisputed the honor accorded his wife by a loving nation...
...have always maintained that trained reserves [as well as soldiers of regular armies] should be included with peacetime armaments [in planning for reductions], since both actually exist in time of peace. In our eyes, a nation which possesses an adequate and equipped trained reserve is in a position promptly to undertake an offensive battle...
...Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited to act as advertising disinfectants. Object of last week's attack, however, was not directly American Tobacco Co., but Merlin Aylesworth's National Broadcasting Co., nation-wide radio chain. Possibly despairing in their endeavor to convince the Lucky Strike makers of the evils of their course, the sugar & calorie forces turned their attention to the broadcasting company as an accessory in the tobacco crime...
Aside from its ringing appeal to Advisory Councilors (who thus far have made no reply), the Open Letter devoted itself chiefly to an interpretation of the Lucky Strike campaign (which, however, it failed to mention by name) as subversive to the youth of the nation. Having told how millions of "young men, women and children" assemble to hear the Lucky Strike radio orchestra, the Letter pointed out that "once attention is centred on the dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these...