Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Hefflin's latest and most vigorour lunge at the Catholic windmill will probably no more add to the gayety of the nation, than it will disrupt the minority party. For the Democrats, with the exception of some Senators, mostly southern, who remained away from the caucus yesterday, repudiated the Alabaman by unanimous support of his opponent Robinson. And if the fathers of this country are turning in their graves because a senator in Congress questioned the right of a man to be president because of religious belief, they may reflect that Hefflin is no typical senator, even if such...
Practically all the nation's leading industries submitted material in the contest. Included in the list of contributors were the Ford Motors Corporation, The Cunard Steamship lines, and several local financial firms. All of the advertisements were in some form of periodical advertising...
...ours," after his defeat of the British squadron on Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. His distinguished brother performed an even greater act when on July 7, 1853, Matthew Calbraith Perry entered in his flagship, the Mississippi, Kurihama in the Bay of Yeddo in Japan, opening that great nation to western com merce...
Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...
Professor E. F. Gay, Professor of Economic History wrote: "No one can fill, in the University and in the nation, the place left by Professor Coolidge. He was a great scholar and trainer of scholars in the wide field of modern history. He was a great librarian, building up, with rare catholicity of interest, a treasure-house and working-place for scholars. Here I wish especially to bring tribute to him as the great editor of "Foreign Affairs". When the Council on Foreign Relations established this journal, Profesors Coolidge was chosen as its editor because he was preeminently qualified...