Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Charles Gates Dawes, new-fledged Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, shrewd, Rooseveltian master of the art of self-projection, greet the British nation last week. The international air had suddenly become filled with clouds of incense and Anglo-American goodwill. Prime Minister MacDonald was planning to go and talk with President Hoover about naval disarmament. Astute Mr. Dawes made it clear that he would try to keep beatific sentiment from cloying by playing his role of hustling, plainspoken, rough-diamond American...
...know a couple of old Salvation Army Captains, Englishmen, who, during the Indian famine of twenty-five years ago, fed three times the number of starving human beings that Hoover fed during the World War. And these unknown famine relief agents did not have the richest nation on earth sending food to them by the shipload and shoveling out money by the barrel to maintain an enormous organization...
Elected. Dr. Henry Raymond Mussey, Wellesley College Economics Professor; to be managing editor of The Nation...
Shortcomings of the U. S. as an airwise nation which General Mitchell considers important include lack of through transcontinental air lines, lack of transoceanic lines, the vulnerability of warships to planes ("battleships have become so top-heavy and useless that if they get a good crack below the waterline, they just turn over and sink of their own accord"), the excellent air targets which the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga provide, the impossibility of protecting cities from air raids, the poverty of the Army and Navy in fighting planes...
...Correio de Manhā said: "We recently had the honor of entertaining President Hoover, whom we applauded as representing the intelligence, culture and merit of the great American nation. Now we reciprocate by this visit...