Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second choice for Senator Borah in Ohio in order to save the Supreme Court from Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "It would mean a great sacrifice for me to accept any public office, and I prefer to devote myself to my newspapers. . . . However, such a grave crisis confronts the nation that all who believe in our precious institutions . . . must be ready to make many sacrifices. ... If the Republicans will nominate Senator Borah, he will be elected and the America we love will be saved...
...bring you what no other could ever have brought you: an entente which will be approved by 90% of the German nation, the nine-tenths who follow me. I pray you note this: There are in the life of peoples decisive occasions. France can today, if it wishes, put an end forever to the 'German Peril' which your children from generation to generation have learned to fear. You can remove this formidable mortgage which weighs on the history of France. This chance is now given to you. If you don't seize it, think of your responsibilities...
...However it is no easy task to direct the affairs of a mighty modern nation. As your late President Theodore Roosevelt used to say. 'it is the batting average that counts.' This point has been lost sight of by the radical officers...
...team was applauded, but I can't say whether the applause was more or less than that received by any other nation. . . . The crowd was cheering individual favorites whom they recognized and teams smartly attired. . . . You know our uniforms weren't especially attractive. . . . Our team looked like a bunch of streetcar conductors...
Meanwhile the proposed referee, the League of Nations, far away and concerned with other matters, woudn't think of stepping in until the fight is well begun. A future Gibbon may reckon up the causes of the fall of two great empires to a nicety, without, however, finding either nation supposedly barbarous. But contemporary Americans can do little more than keep their coat-tails clear, and ignore, impartially, the lulling sing-song of Japanese apologists and the siren, two-toned voice of Russia...