Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...
...Socialists!" warned Mr. Baldwin-and by these he meant the leaders of Britain's second largest party (Laborite) -"The Socialists with their program of nationalize major industries would stifle the spirit of British enterprise. They would reduce our people to a dead level. They would make them as marionettes dancing to the dictation of officials-a dance of death so far as progress in our nation is concerned. They would make a bureaucratic machine and drive out of this country men of enterprise in whatever class they might be, who would go to the United States or the Dominions...
...constructive plans of Mr. Herbert Hoover, whom the prospering Americans have chosen as their President. . . . Right now the Liberal Party is ready with plans which will reduce the terrible numbers of the workless in the course of a single year, to normal proportions, and when completed will enrich the nation and equip it to compete successfully with business rivals." Though slightly vague as to these plans, which seemed to hinge upon employing the jobless in road building and on glamorous public works, Mr. Lloyd George made the ringing assertion that "all this will be achieved without adding a penny...
When strongly pressed to reveal the name of the first nation outside the continent of Europe on which Pope Pius XI will set foot, the Cardinal-Archbishop reflected for a moment, then answered cautiously, "perhaps Ireland...
...cried Chief Sleuth Fors, "that an open state of rebellion and utter disregard for legally constituted authority exists throughout the nation." He immediately obtained 73 more warrants for prominent Cubans, and darkly hinted that the Cuban army was honeycombed with sedition...