Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adamses came to Massachusetts from England about 1636, for more than 100 years were good but unremarkable citizens. Then John Adams was born. Educated for the ministry, he became a lawyer, was soon outstanding among public men in Massachusetts. A patriot, like his distant cousin Sam Adams, he was one of Massachusetts' delegates to the first Continental Congress. He nominated Washington as Commander-in-Chief. He was sent to France as Commissioner, later to England as Minister. U. S. Vice President eight years, he succeeded Washington as President, was first occupant of the White House. When Thomas Jefferson...
...This little-known patriot of Central New York has been deprived of the fame that should have been his for his part in the organization of the Republican Party in New York State. From his opposition to the Mexican War was born the idea of a political party that would incorporate the principles of protection for our industries and freedom for the Negro. His slogans: 'Protection for our Prosperity' and 'Freedom in the Land of the Free' became the rallying cry of those honest farmers who later became the nucleus of the Republican Party...
Secretary of Labor Davis: "It is a pleasure to testify to the career of that sturdy patriot who first planted the ideals of our party in this region of the country. If he were living today, he would be the first to rejoice in evidence everywhere present that our government is still safe in the hands of the people...
Stalin and Hoover. If U. S. businessmen should refuse to sell Red Russia what she wants, gladly would British, German or even Japanese businessmen fill her orders. Christian, capitalist and patriot though he may be, the U. S. businessman has this perfect alibi far his traffic with the Reds...
...Schoolmaster Taussig" is an early story of Neumann's, a grim naturalistic sex tragedy considerably more effective than "King Haber", though much cruder and more exaggerated. "The Patriot", familiar to movie fans as one of Emil Jannings best pictures, stands out as the most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot...