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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referred to the recent Republican fiasco (the nomination of the "unknown" Senator Harding). The comment of the country, she declared was: "Well, they might have done worse." Then gazing directly at her hearers, she proclaimed: "Nominate Mr. Davis and the comment that will ring through out the land will be 'Well, they couldn't have done better...
...business. He was offered an appointment to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate, refused it. Politics was not his business. He began to preach the doctrine of diversified farming. He "discovered" alfalfa and was a prophet of lucerne, as it was then called, when it was still unknown among its own people. His books, his pamphlets, his articles, went broadcast over Kansas, over the U. S., beyond the continent. They had fetching illustrations, wonderful titles: The Corns that Kansas Farmers Have, Alfalfa's Affinity, The Hog's Happy Habitat, The Beef Steer and His Sister, The Helpful...
...finds our country different from the European countryside. We look differently?nowhere in Europe can he discover faces remotely resembling those of Mr. Harding, Mr. Bryan or General Pershing?we walk differently and act differently. Our nation moves and thinks with a suddenness, a violence and a uniformity unknown abroad; we allow ourselves to be taken in by Mr. H. G. Wells, and we have?it is the one contrast which no Englishman ever forgets?bathtubs...
...regard to blistering and other forms of structural protection from torpedo attack, Great Britain has or soon will have 10 of her 20 battleships so protected; the U. S. has 5 of her 18 protected; Japan is an unknown quantity, but intends to spend 50,000,000 yen modernizing her fleet...
Group bashfulness is unknown in the U. S. Every group says in so many words "This is what we demand," and then proceeds to lay out a platform on how the country should be conducted. The chief differences between groups, aside from their demands, is the seriousness with which politicians listen to their proposals. One of the foremost groups in this respect is Labor...