Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio speech last month, Candidate Smith said, "history records that down to the present day the Nation has not favored the election of a President of great wealth" with the exception of George Washington. Had he been talking about Secretaries of the Treasury he must have observed that the reverse is true-the richer the Treasurer the more trusted. That is part of the secret of Andrew Mellon's wide popularity...
...there any reason why the Filipino people should not attain such economic development? Manifestly they lack it today. . . . But the Philippine Islands are today possessed of political connections with the foremost industrial nation in the world...
...favor of having any religious denomination, Protestant or Catholic, backed by a nation-wide militant organization, established at Washington for the declared purpose of exercising what the Methodist Church now openly assumes to exercise, namely, the functions of censorship and dictatorship over all branches of our constitutional government...
...been in progress, and now the new building is almost ready for occupancy. Beautiful the new structure is, and larger and more convenient than the old, but it is a mockery, a hollow shell that has lost the priceless treasure that once made Louvain the pride of a nation. The manuscripts and volumes, all too scanty, that remained as the inheritance of the present world from the mighty Charles V and Thomas a Kempis are gone--"destroyed by German fury", some would say; but how can one nation be accused for a delirium in which the whole world raged...
...visiting team, composed of B. C. Duniway, Rolf Lium, and Herman Johnson, is on a tour of the East engaging in an extensive program of debates with Eastern institutions. All of its members are experienced debaters, and one of them, Rolf Lium, gained nation-wide prominence last summer when he acted as preacher for the Congregational church attended by President and Mrs. Coolidge during their sojourn in the Black Hills of South Dakota...