Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroader Loree, a massive oldtimer with a beard like General Grant's, was emphatic about national defense. He said: "Perhaps no nation stands so much in need of a recognition of this necessity for armed protection as does the United States, and perhaps no nation has, since the warnings of Washington, turned so resolutely away from its serious consideration Let us remember the counsel of the Yellow Knife Indian-'It will be time enough for the warrior to throw away his gun when the squaw casts away her papoose...
...weakness" of the U. S. as the line from Chesapeake Bay to Lake Erie. "Failure to hold that line would so divorce the manufacturing plants from the sources of raw material, would so separate those living in the Atlantic States from their food supplies as to virtually paralyze the nation...
...Saturday Review thought that "There is no probability that Mr. Hoover will be even as tolerant of European weaknesses as is the present occupant of the White House," and agreed with the Nation that President-Elect Herbert Hoover must have seen and approved an advance draft of the President's speech...
...Times cooled down to the following well-bred remarks, the sleek irony of which will be lost on stupid people: "It is not easy for a European touching American shores to discern the pressure of a financial burden estimated by the President to exceed that of any other nation and to comprise 'half the entire wealth of the country at the time it entered the conflict...
...contemporary America will be brought in a moving show to the great Forum that is the Yale Bowl tomorrow. What place the market fairs of Lyons yesterday filled or the medieval fields of the cloth of gold, the growth of the football stadia more adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing teams dispels...