Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Folk art is generally considered to be art which arises spontaneously from the people and is the result of a communal effort. America has long been wanting in this respect and has thereby lost a certain richness in its culture which comes only when the people have sufficient inherent artistic talent to produce it. To be sure there have been the cowboy songs of the West, and the ballads of the Kentucky mountains, but there has been nothing which the public could seize as its own, as a part of its everyday life. The obvious answer for the dearth...
...This is the outward, political aspect of an inner, social change which Catholicism underwent in the U. S. during the reign of Achille Ratti. The country is still Protestant, but amid the deepening class cleavages of today, the Roman Catholic Church is recognized as a Gibraltar of conservatism, and respect for the constancy of its moral values has revived...
Last week, to capitalize the public sympathy aroused by the Peace Pope's death, Rector Joseph Corrigan of Washington's Catholic University of America, announced a crusade for "God in Government." U. S. Catholics are to pledge themselves to "defend the republic against atheistic propaganda, to maintain respect for rightly constituted authority and finally to combat fearlessly every invasion of the rights of any citizen or any group of citizens...
...Navy. But the Navy's traditional reason for existence has long been Japan and its threat to U. S. possessions and trade in the Pacific. Japan outnumbers the U. S. in some ship categories, particularly submarines. Leahy & Co. do not worry greatly about this, having small respect for Japanese numbers. By U. S. standards, the Japanese have yet to learn to build efficient surface ships, tend to overload them with disastrously topheavy armor and guns...
...fundamental things that must be taught is respect for the flag," O'Neil continued. "I deplore the fact that a Teachers' Oath Bill is necessary, but I heartily support...