Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Wilson . . . was one of this nation's three greatest Presidents...
Said he in effect: "A nation which holds in its hands the economic leadership of the world cannot afford to oscillate from one foreign policy to another according to whom or to which party momentarily occupies the White House...
...intelligent solution of the liquor question probably lies in the exclusion of highly alcoholic liquors and the judicious distribution of light wines and beers through Federal dispensaries, thus maintaining an equal degree of temperance in the public interest and throughout the whole nation...
Calles has been called a Dictator, as was Obregon, as have been most Presidents of Mexico. Therefore the Nation was moved in the very depths of its emotional being, last week, when President Calles said: "For the first time in Mexican history the Republic faces a situation whose dominant note is the lack of a leader of military power. . . . This is the most solemn hour of our national life. ... I consider it necessary that we pass from a system of government by one man to a government of institutions. ... It is useless to seek an outstanding or dictatorial person...
...Disdain is not usually felt for Sir William Orpen with his careful, photographic half-tones, sometimes so emphasized that his faces are overmodeled. Among the most prolific of painters, he held, in 1918, a vast exhibition of War-paintings, of which he gave a large number to the British nation. He has written books as well as painted pictures, but less ably...