Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pioneer is pursued so closely by commerce, even in the air, that his type seems in danger of extinction. But there is much yet to do. Around-the-world trips are already planned, the speed of flight will be increased, and most important, the machines in time will be operated automatically by power waves sent from operating stations all over the country. The legions of pioneers need not yet go into barracks, nor need they reach out to Mars to find routes still uncharted...
Everyone who regrets the original independence and pioneer spirit will encourage this effort. Unfortunately it is a counter-movement, a reaction, directly contrary to the present trend. A curious combination of economic dependence with political and social dissatisfaction has given rise to a most difficult situation, which such forces as the Ku Klux have only made more acute. At first glance "The Minute Men" are directed against the Klan, but essentially their object is much the same. Both societies seek a return to conditions once considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless...
...operated historically. The agricultural population is the labor reserve of industry. In settled countries when industry is booming labor is drawn off the land into the factories. When industry is depressed this reserve goes back to the land. In America, which until about 20 years ago was a pioneer and not a settled country, the labor for expanding industries was drawn from; Europe. Statistics show that the rate of influx of immigrants and the rate of production, say of pig iron, go up and down together. But labor imported from the European peasantry to aid an American business boom cannot...
...pioneer in his insistence upon clean and true advertising. He even eliminated from The Ladies' Home Journal all cosmetics advertisements because he did not approve of rouge...
...curtain speech, said that Mr. Harding would appear in the great political production of 1924. Shortly afterwards Senator James E. Watson of Indiana allowed himself to be heard hammering down the planks which the Presidential feet will tread during the coming drama. In comparative isolation aboard the Pioneer, Mr. Harding was apparently keeping his own counsel and making his own plans. It is understood, however, that in a nation-wide tour next summer the President will make 20 speeches-in which case he will have to have something to talk about. Inasmuch as the President seems by all odds...