Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rarely been in a more happy condition. . . . Our relations with South America are on the most satisfactory basis that they have been for 25 years. On the far side of the Pacific our situation is equally satisfactory. We have no important unadjusted problem with the government of any European nation, with the exception of Russia . . . . All the issues that arose, even out of the World War, have been adjusted...
...There can be no excuse for the complacent violation. . . . There are only two honorable courses open to us: either modify the law or squarely face the sacrifices . . . of enforcement. The third course is the policy we, as a nation, are pursuing: namely, to keep the law regardless of whether it is enforced or not. This is . . . nullification...
President Coolidge was approaching the end of his term of office. He had not yet announced his plans for the future. How might a loud, bold U. S. newspaper have created a nation-wide sensation out of that situation? One way might have been to send to President Coolidge, and simultaneously make public, the following telegram...
...selection such as this are scarcely to be found even in the judges of the Atlantic City beauty contest, who, one is lead to believe, yearly pick the "best looking" American. Not content with mere externals, however, Yale Seniors confidently proceed to confound the personnel workers of a nation by the closest determination of so-called personality traits...
...pesetas ($3.80 to $380), and imprisonment from one to 14 days on anyone arrested by the police and pro nounced guilty by the Minister of the Interior, General Martinez Anido. of "speaking in a public place against the government, the Crown, or the interests of the Nation;" 2) To suppress any society or club upon whose premises such speaking may occur; 3) To dismiss any employe of the State deemed hostile to the government...