Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Walker had been chosen to make the big speech and accept the memorial for the nation partly because he had helped raise the money, partly because friends of Governor Smith were influential in the memorial association, partly because James John Walker, regarded as a "wisecracker" at home, is accounted a popular orator in the South...
Mayor Walker, accepting for the nation, speaking extemporaneously, said: "Lee was the only man in whom God coupled the saint and the warrior. Long after the pyramids have crumbled, his figure, like his memory . . . still will be here...
Five thousand ports of shelter are now available for American airmen. The Department of Commerce last week listed 1,075 airports and nearly 4,000 other fields adequate for landing. California leads the nation with 115 air fields, Texas has 90, and Pennsylvania...
Francis John McConnell, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh, stated a postulate that would surprise and shock all sturdy U. S. Fundamentalists: "I come from a Nation which is in some respects pagan. We subscribe to the doctrine of militarism and to the god of materialism, and we have given ourselves over to the pursuit of wealth. We should not be complacent regarding paganism. . . . Let this meeting become a challenge...
...mean a leader who will provide incentives to the creative energies of his people, combing the nation over for its creative brains, seeing to it that no atom of genius is allowed to wither in isolation or starve for lack of recognition...