Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Characteristically, Counsel Hogan opened his case by presenting Mr. Mellon as a greathearted, cruelly persecuted philanthropist and patriot. Climaxing a long recital of his client's good works, he announced that Mr. Mellon had long intended to build a great public museum in Washington to house his $19,000,000 collection of art treasures (see p. 32). Throbbed Lawyer Hogan: "God Almighty did not create a man who could at the same time and with the same heart be giving such a great gift to humanity and, on the other hand, be scheming to steal from his Government...
...make us the whipping boy of Europe by joining the League Court. . . ." All this outcry sold newspapers and presumably whipped Hearstreaders into a mild frenzy of fear and protest. With that any ordinary publisher would have been content. But William Randolph Hearst is also a Power and a Patriot. So while his newspapers foamed noisily, the private Washington lobby which he has long maintained to fight for U. S. isolation and lesser Hearst, causes went quietly into action...
Another Caesar is not Neumann's first historical novel. The Devil, published in the U. S. in 1928, had considerable success. A play, The Patriot, was made into one of Emil Jannings' best cinemas. Since the advent of Hitler, Neumann has lived in Florence. Another Caesar has been translated into eight languages besides English...
...talk was old Emilio Aguinaldo, the patriot who more than a generation ago staged his insurrection against U. S. imperialism. He asked for freedom, not in ten years but much sooner. Senator Tydings turned on him with a curt: "God gave us our brains for thought...
Exceedingly high strung, therefore often indiscreet, and consequently world-champion deniers are most Japanese diplomats. Notably so is their ardent chief Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, a super-patriot of the Black Dragon Society. In his youth Mr. Hirota drafted Japan's crushing Twenty-One Demands upon China, demands so flagrantly outrageous that their very existence was denied to President Woodrow Wilson repeatedly, officially and as long as possible by the Japanese Embassy...