Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact Judged by U. S. standards Japan's middle classes are miserably poor, but even the poorest patriot can give his mite. Last week the Japanese mite was fixed, for patriotic purposes, at five sen (1? current exchange). Two million workers pledged that every month for the next three years each will pitch five sen into a "War Chest" of $720,000 which will be offered to the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, "Son of Heaven...
...Ulster-Unionist (anti-Free State) parents sent him carefully to Rugby, England's heartiest school. The inevitable Irish upshot was that Francis Stuart landed in a Dublin jail as a rioting Irish Republican. Against the wishes of both families he ran away with Iseult, niece of famed, beauteous Patriot Maud Gonne MacBride, whose husband had been executed in the 1916 rising. Now he lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find in his writing a harmony for the Irish soul. Backed by William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, he has just been nominated...
Next day steamship and factory whistles blew, crowds lined the streets for a parade-but not to celebrate the news from Washington. Ignoring that, most Manil-ans were honoring Jose Rizal y Mercado, patriot executed by Spaniards...
...Hearst, Publisher Motoyama was a worker for international harmony, a liberal and independent patriot. He opposed the attack on Shanghai, upheld the occupation of Manchuria...
...State Department forwarded to U. S. consuls abroad a demand by the Woman Patriot Corp. (a Mrs. Randolph Frothingham of Brookline, Mass. president) that Albert Einstein be barred from the U. S. because he is "affiliated with more anarchist and Communist groups than Josef Stalin himself.'' Said Professor Einstein, in Germany...