Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Underlying all, however;, there is a certain serious spirit in the convention, a spirit which called it into being in the first place. A common intense interest in public questions and a keen desire to do their part in the political life of the nation brought the members of the Democratic Club together. Their convention tonight and tomorrow will be a jovial and lively climax to months of serious discussion and earnest work and the platform which is adopted will be the chief fruit of their labors. It will be a sincere expression of the opinions of Harvard's politically...
...Soviet agitators through Afghanistan into India. Such matters are not for the press. But Comrade Tchitcherin did stress in able and complimentary fashion the vital importance of Afghanistan in three respects. First, as a militant and independent power, dominating the junction of important Asiatic trade routes. Second, as a nation without railways, which thus interrupts the bands of steel which would otherwise stretch from Europe to India. And third, as an undeveloped virgin field for commercial expansion...
...World because he insisted on writing very, very pinkish words on the Sacco-Vanzetti case (TIME, Aug. 22). It was not until late in December that Mr. Broun's column again appeared in the World. Meanwhile, he took to writing-and still does-a page in The Nation (small but earnestly liberal weekly...
...immediate cause of the World's dismissal of Mr. Broun was an article he wrote in The Nation last week. He discussed U. S. journalism, using the World as an example of how bad the best is: "The World on numerous occasions has been able to take two, three or even four different stands with precisely the same material in hand. So constant were the shifts during the Sacco-Vanzetti case that the paper seemed like an old car going up hill. In regard to Nicaragua the World has thundered on Thursdays and whispered on Monday mornings. Again...
...When I returned to the World after a witch's Sabbatical, they told me I should blow off steam in The Nation. They told me there was no governor on that steam. Previously the World maintained its right to censor what I wrote for them. Now it wants to censor what I write elsewhere. After the tradition of Uncle Tom, I can still say that, while my body may have belonged to the Press Publishing Company, my soul belonged...