Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Damnation. That evening Prime Minister of Quebec Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau and Provincial Secretary L. Athanase David spoke long and loud before their public. They characterized the Lindbergh flight as unnecessary, as pure bluff, as U. S. publicity under the guise of charity. They declared there was plenty of anti...
The Most Hon. the Marquess of Reading, G. C. B., K. C. B. O., onetime Viceroy of India, a director of the National Provincial Bank Ltd., and of the Midland Bank.
But still, why should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru? Peru is far away. Lima society is exciting, but very limited. After Madrid, Mr. Moore would find it paltry if not provincial. And aside from the absurd Tacna-Arica dispute, in which the U. S. is a laughed-at...
''We must not fear to be accused of being provincial. Rome is the eternal centre of all civilizations. It is far more provincial to be afraid to appear provincial than to have courage to be oneself with sincerity and pride.''
Inevitably the first result of such "experienced and powerful" throat-cutting between two major groups will be a slaughter of the independent provincial evening newspapers. It was this which James Ramsay MacDonald called, last week, "an alarming situation."