Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written about in news columns rather than on art pages. Both his work and his story are good human interest material. A Polish Jew, he worked for a while in foundries in Cleveland, reproduced in bronze the men he saw there. The New York Evening Post, under a big spread devoted to pictures of his statues, called him the "Walt Whitman of Sculp-ture." The Philadelphia Inquirer gave him a page of its magazine section one Sunday ("Glorifying America's Workingmen in Bronze and Marble") and the Literary Digest wrote in lively style of an "exhibition of sculpture...
...purpose of the Supreme Kingdom is to "combat atheism and its accursed ally, evolution." It points to the spread of atheism in the South, as evidenced by pamphlets urging unbelief which have recently appeared in great quantity, given away at street corners and in the arcades of office buildings. Has the Supreme Kingdom had these pamphlets printed at its own printshop (whence issues Dynamite, the Kingdom's official organ) and had them circulated as if they came from an atheist society? So declared the Macon, (Ga.,) Telegraph. Further, the Telegraph hardily asserted that the Supreme Kingdom was "shot through with...
...Some one has said they were there to protect the American Continent from the spread of Bolshevism. Only those simple-minded souls who still believe in a Santa Glaus can be fooled by such hypocrisy...
...constituents who would like to have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which Calles aspires to be the ruling spirit...
During the last decade the problem of what to do with India has become more and more acute. Just as the spirit of nationalism brought on the train of the War has pervaded Europe, so it has begun to spread into India, under the fostering care of men like Gandhi and his associates...