Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experts, and two-thirds of the population will be urban. Urban communities complain that control by country men, ignorant of city problems, is intolerable. Where city controls country, farmers are equally vexed. Most of the States, says Professor Merriam, are the anachronistic creatures of surveyors' chains. "The nation and the city are vigorous organs. . . . The truth is that the State is standing on slippery ground as a political unit...
...system of 'patron age'; a factory will 'adopt' a regiment; a regiment, on the other hand, will 'adopt' a village. . . . The Red Army, more than any other in the world, is aiming toward the goal of a volunteer militia, in which the entire nation will participate. ... In Russian factories the workers are organized in[military training] units . . . and already they are partially outfitted with the most modern 6.5 millimeter repeaters. . . . Men in a textile factory can be turned in three minutes into 18,000 trained and armed troops...
...French Olympic Committee the French Government gave 1,500,000 francs "for preparation," promised 1,500,000 more in June. Said the secretary of M. Briand, Foreign Minister of the most parsimonious nation in the world, "We can't afford to lose...
They're winning our nation-How splendid for each girl...
From New York city, that stronghold of Demon Rum and the despair of prohibitionists, there has been found an advocate of the cause of Carrie Nation and Andrew Volstead. The existence of this non-bootlegging citizen was revealed when a manager of a hotel in that city received a letter from a guest to the effect that a bellboy had refused to get him any refreshment more satisfactory than grape juice in spite of all inducements. Very emphatically, if a trifle ungrammatically, he replied: "Sorry, sir, I can't help you out in no way, shape or form." Fortunately...