Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further you seem to have a religious complex. The fact that Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady is a Roman Catholic has little or nothing to do with her qualifications as head of the Girl Scouts of the Nation...
...equipment. Scarcely a large city in the country had adequate quarters for the transaction of Federal business. The government pays rent in the city of Washington alone of more than one million dollars annually. It is estimated that the government is paying rentals of twenty million dollars in the nation. True economy would be effected by the erection of Federal buildings, especially in the numerous instances where sites acquired many years ago have been left vacant because the administration did not desire to have these expenditures appear in the budget. It is not economy to refuse to spend money...
...greater prestige than Dr. John Holladay Latane, U. S. history man. At a Smith rally, a fortnight ago, Dr. Latane said: "Speaking as a historian, I say very seriously that it is my opinion that the Society of Jesus*in the palmiest days of its history never held a nation in so firm a grasp as the 'political parsons' of certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal...
...hated and reviled was ever so lamented and honored at his death.' " Hated in life for his stern unfriendliness, reviled for advocating measures that his party did not support, Sir Robert Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development...
...Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...