Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness to accept...
...carry on his mother's and grandfather's tradition, the Nation's editor has two sons, Henry Hilgard Villard, 17, entering Yale this autumn and another, Oswald Garrison Villard, 11. Two other grandsons, sons of Harold Garrison Villard, a onetime editor of the Nautical Gazette have already departed the usual paths of liberals. One, Henry Villard, is in the U. S. Diplomatic Corps; the other, Vincent Villard is a white-collar man in a Manhattan bank...
...outrageous were the reported details of Miss Savidge's interrogation at Scotland Yard, that when her inquisitor, Inspector Collins, appeared before the Extraordinary Tribunal, it was hoped by thousands of Britons that he would turn out to be an inexperienced or at least an exceptionally bad inspector. The nation's confidence in its police was well-nigh shattered at one blow when Inspector Collins established that he is an officer of 32 years' experience, 93 times complimented by Judges from the Bench for his efficiency, and never before complained against by police or public...
...Every nation wants for itself the glory of making and breaking records. Italy is no exception. Vexed because major aeronautical records were scarce in Italy, because the Schneider Cup race had been lost to England, Dictator Mussolini last winter ordered civil aviators to concentrate on the problem of record-gathering. Obligingly, three faithful Fascists chalked up three new records in a little more than three months...
...flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William Hale Harkness, George Pynchon, George Post...