Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal to my fellow-countrymen and women to give me their support today in the fight against unemployment. I ask this for their own sake and for the sake of the rising generations...
...Your presence here is a very impressive demonstration of your desire. I doubt if any of my countrymen would hesitate to assert that if the womanhood of the nation want something they will be bound to secure...
...would seem to be in the interest of herself and of every people involved. It would be presumption for me to pass any opinion of American domestic politics, where national isolation from Old World quarrels is still something of an issue. But I am not I think, misrepresenting my countrymen in urging upon your readers how very greatly they appreciate the recent feeler of the President, and how much more his good offices would be welcomed in an impartial American intervention to secure the following points...
...inauguration of a policy of "Imperial Preference" with a mixture of pride and fear. They would be able to point out that the English economists of the nineteenth century who so soundly berated Americans for not adopting a policy of free trade were now deserted by their own countrymen. Still, it would hardly be pleasant to contemplate a triumph in economic theory which might seriously affect profitable trade which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position to complain much over unreasonable duties...
...Their countrymen in Japan, the American Ambassador, Mr. Woods, his entire staff, and other American residents stayed with us through the darkest hours of our calamity like soldiers at posts of duty, giving aid and comfort to our stricken people. Disasters may hurl down monuments of stone and bronze, time may wear them into dust, but nothing can destroy our precious memories of American service and heroism during the most appalling convulsion of the elements in all recorded history...