Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Associated Press, United Press, other famed news services did not succumb to the false facts, nor did the New York Times, the World or other Manhattan journals. The great Herald Examiner in Chicago did, as did the Detroit Free Press, the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot, the Automotive Daily News?and TIME, the weekly newsmagazine...
Married. Mary Cohan, 18, daughter of George M. Cohan, patriot; to one Neil Litt, orchestra leader, following an elopement; at Elkton, Md. Georgette Cohan, eldest daughter of Mr. Cohan eloped in 1921 with one J. William Souther; telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle boy. Wave your flag." Mr. Souther died in 1925 and she later married and divorced one William Hamilton Rowse. Mr. Cohan was divorced from his first wife, Actress Ethel 'Levey, who afterwards married Claude Graham White, famed British aviator...
TIME said: "The Scouts . . . are often pointed to as a potent reserve behind the national arms for peace or war." The Scout Manual, in answering the question, "What is a Boy Scout?" says: "A scout is a patriot and is always ready to serve his country at a minute's notice. ... He desires a strong body, an alert mind and an unconquerable spirit so that he may serve his country in any need. . . . A scout chooses as his motto 'Be Prepared...
...Washington, D. C., the Administration's view was presented by U.S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. He recalled that General Sandino was indeed the only Nicaraguan commander who refused to disarm his forces; but Mr. Kellogg drew from this refusal the conclusion not that General Sandino is a "patriot," but instead the decision that he is "an outlaw . . . whose acts have no political significance." The Secretary backed up this postulate by stating that General Sandino's men have recently sought to maintain themselves by foraging upon the. property of U. S. citizens and others in Nicaragua. Thus they would...
...Morton Howell, spoke at a luncheon tendered him by Egyptian friends at Cairo last week: "The Egyptian Chamber of Deputies is a wonderfully good and competent group of men. . . . I have not seen any Egyptian hostility to foreigners. . . . Saad Zaghlul Pasha† has proved on all occasions a great patriot, sincere and intelligent and possessed of abilities and will power to a high degree, making him a great statesman...