Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian nation virtually was at civil war. Railways, postal and telegraphic services . . . were hopelessly disorganized. Industry had been paralyzed for several years by revolutionary strikes. The government had lost all effective authority. Parliament was a feeble confusion of conflicting cliques...
...Modern democracies overload their executive leaders with so many responsibilities and duties that they have little strength or freshness of spirit left for a creative leadership of the nation's life...
...that they could so easily rally a following if they had the imagination to realize how strong they are. If they chose to say that they would not endure the intolerable indignities to which they are subjected they would very soon command a new kind of respect in the nation. Nothing can excuse or explain away spinelessness. But if the educators in the public schools have to lead a double life it is not due wholly to personal timidity. It is due to a confusion of mind...
...feat was undertaken to justify the party. But according to the "Nation", such an act as Mr. Borah has made might very possibly give him such a start on the rocky road to the presidency as the famous "Cross of Gold" speech so nearely gave William Jennings Bryan...
...Then such a repayment would not effectively wash the stain from the Republican robe of state. Now, with the suggestion that Mr. Borah donate the sum already gathered to the needy miners of Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable, has yet brought himself into the public eye in a way that many of the more promising presidential candidates may well envy...