Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argument. The sole question at issue was the legal one: "Is a U.S. Senator a state officer?" The Committee on Elections, headed by Senator Goff of West Virginia, decided "No." A minority report was made by a Democrat, Senator Stephens of Mississippi, saying "Yes." A Senator is paid by the Federal government but chosen by the state. Whose officer is he? Some Senators declared it would be unfair to deprive a state of its full representation because of a legal technicality...
...larger proportion of them attend and enjoy the moving pictures. They admit the possibility and applaud the actuality of a true interpretation of life therein, whether the subject be Babylon or West Point, whether it is filmed in California or Garden City. Hence a sense of reciprocity would admit that the world should see Harvard...
...that city. "Chicago is becoming a center of organized pacifism . . . which works against the military training camps, undermines military training in these schools and colleges: it has a sentimental disregard for the real causes of war, but it is effective." Thus speaks the old army spirit in the middle west. And the "Transcript" echoes the following...
...counteract this insidious propaganda that this patriotic journal would take these young men west and exhibit them as an offset to the cheap jeers and unintelligent opposition' which characterize pacifist procedure." Thus it is evident that at least two prominent American journals see in a "boast of heraldry" and its accompanying "pomp of power" the renascence of middle western morale. Yet does not this savor a bit of "unintelligent opposition" to the active desire of the people of the western world that there exist a real appreciation of the vitality of peace...
There are extremists is every cause. And pacifism has gained a connotation too far removed from that which it should unquestionably possess. But this parading of the West Point regiment and the mid-shipmen also bears the stigma of a certain false valuation. Not by parading either war or peace, but by understanding both can the citizens of the lake city improve their morale. And in commending such a parade the eastern press merely adds to the popular misconception of modern issues of international intellectual and morale progress...