Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Charles G. Dawes chose Evanston, Ill., in which to start a new organization" Minute Men of the Constitution." Said General Dawes: "The purpose of this thing is to show these damned politicians and reformers that everyone in this neck of the woods isn't wishywashy enough to fall in line with their dictation. . . . This is a movement for good government...
...Michigan State Senate, where he was quoted as planning to build a factory on every small waterpower site he can obtain in that state, and thus give winter employment to farmers at city wages, which all comes back to the fact that running the Ford Motor Company is one thing and courting the farmer vote is another. Mr. Ford is undoubtedly the world's premier automotive manufacturer. As the savior of the American farmer, however, his practical efficiency is yet to be established...
...title " Silly Cooperationists " an editorial attack upon a certain " Commission of Intellectual Cooperation" apparently functioning abroad, which proposes to eliminate from school histories the praise of " narrow national activities" and substitute a history dealing objectively with international affairs. This view, says the Transcript, " assumes that education is the same thing as propaganda, which it is not." Whereupon the Transcript proceeds to show that it is. " The child is educated," if you please, " by arousing pride and joy in his heart. . To interweave heroic deeds, battles long ago and proudly remembered feats and sacrifices with rocks and rills, boundless plains...
Internationalism may as the Transcript suggests, be silly. Patriotic pride may be one of the goods of life. But to require the schools to teach a Deutschland Uber Alles jingoism in order to inculcate joy in the childish heart is a silly and dangerous thing...
...daily interview with some prominent citizen headed " The First Thing I Remember," printed by a Dayton, Ohio, newspaper. It is becoming part of the significant Dayton news...