Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, Minister Konitza made the following statement: "The Italians have many admirable qualities and are a great nation, but God Almighty, in His inscrutable design, has deprived them of all sense of chivalry. Just when our Queen gave birth to a child, the Italians dealt this blow...
Revision was the treatment recommended by Elder Statesman Stimson. He urged the Senators to make the President identify "aggressors," then punish them by embargoes and other economic sanctions. British statesmen of today, well knowing their nation is not soon likely to seem "aggressive" in U. S. eyes, and with trouble much nearer home than Manchuria, rejoiced to read these consistent Stimsonisms, which were delivered with more force and sparkle than Colonel Stimson exhibited while in office...
Since developing from a painfully shy, homely gosling and an inhibited, inferior-feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...
...move also served to tighten the Fascist-Nazi pincers on Yugoslavia. That nation is now surrounded on three sides, with Nazi Austria on the north, Fascist Albania on the south, and an Italian sea, the Adriatic, on the west. To make the picture complete, dissatisfied little Bulgaria, most defeated of Germany's World War allies, lies on the east. When Britain hastily suggested that Yugoslavia join the anti-aggression pact there came only stony silence from Belgrade. The Yugoslav Government dared do nothing to offend its powerful neighbors...
...condition of the President's arm, unfortunately enough, cannot be taken as assurance that all the other flingers of the nation's pastimes are as well off. For this season in the sport might well be termed the year of the sore-arms, or at least, the year of the question-mark arms. Whether due to the widely discussed influence of the "rabbit" quality in American horsehide, or to the more mundane belief that managers have overworked their pitchers, the fact remains that an inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell...