Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciate highly the great honor. . . . I will accept . . . as soon as my public obligations already assumed have been discharged. . . . I will be a candidate in the Republican primary. . . . I will give my best to State and Nation...
...Plan. The Transportation Act of 1920 which returned U. S. railroads from the Government to their owners ordered the Commission to prepare a nation-wide plan for consolidation. The carriers were then weak and shaky after Federal operation. It was argued that consolidation would link the strong with the weak, eliminate wasteful competition, put all roads on a profitable basis. Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard produced for the Commission a merger plan in 1921 which caused such dissension that it was quickly junked. Vainly the Commission wrestled with the Congressional order, made no apparent progress. Impatient at the delay...
...that there is apprehension among those who have given thought to this vital question, and that there should be dismay among those who cannot understand how parity in cruisers can be arrived at unless it is to be a parity having regard to the commitments and obligations of each nation? . . . There is no nation, whose naval commitments and obligations are so great and so complicated as the British Empire...
...Express Bank & Trust Co. with $10,000,000 capital. Although the new bank will be incorporated in New York, each American Express office will amount to a correspondent, and, should branch banking laws be repealed, could quickly become a branch. In this way Chase may some day have a nation-wide banking system without buying out-of-town banks or forming new ones...
...glamour which attended the naval festivities yesterday in Portsmouth has undoubtedly struck a note of wonder in the minds of the American public. For, to the tune of celebrating salutes, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams had the honor of christening a new giant submarine to be added to the nation's fleet. Marking one more step in the government's policy of defence, the occasion at once assumed national importance...