Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work revolves around three major types of problems. First is the territorial situation. Many diverse theories have been advanced, and not a few are still current, concerning the coast lines of countries. We hope to evolve certain rules to which every nation will assent. Such standards should do much toward simplifying puzzling questions and thus should promote harmony in foreign relations...
...Nationality presents the third type about which our discussion centers. Italy claims as her citizens all people who are born of Italian parents, no matter where they are born or reside. The United States, on the other hand, calls everyone a citizen who is born in America. When Italian parents living in New York have a son, of which nation then is he a member? An agreement on nationality is the third type of law which is extremely advisable, and which we hope to establish...
...acres of the estate, on which the old house will be reproduced at a cost of about half a million dollars. When it is completed, together with the Strothers Farm, which it is hoped to have rebuilt, and with Mount Vernon, there will be three important shrines of the nation's hero...
Will never be old Where the tocsins of Liberty ring. A national hymn isn't easy to write. For the hymns of a nation are made...
...forerunners. Too numerous are names like Ford's Peace Ship and the Hague Conferences and the Neutrality Agreements. These, except the first, had at least a practical excuse for existence. There was hope for more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope; at worst, a jest...