Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Crosby will have under his direction the police, the fire and the traffic services. . . . His headship of those departments will be a guarantee to both the official and unofficial residents of the District and especially to the nation at large, that the capital of the nation will be free of organized crime...
Furthermore, Calhoun's doctrine was able to cause civil war only because the controversy involved was of such a nature thatit divided the nation along clearly-defined regional lines, presenting in this way two violently opposed geographical entities. The present controversy, while sentiment may prevail one way or the other in different regions, is not fundamentally sectional in origin, and scarcely can operate to cause any well defined rift in the union. Civil war under these conditions then must necessarily be nothing more, than anarchy and chaos, rather than any conflict between two well organized factions. It is absurd...
...translator of mere words can convey to a nation the sentiments and life of another. It requires a native of a country to relate to his countrymen the habits of thought and action of another race. Next in value to expatriate students as translators of the emotional and intellectual constitution of the people of their adopted place of study are delegates such as those who come to Harvard today. The terms of life are experiences and the vehicles of expression are words. Properly to transfer the one through the other the translator must first live the life; then tell...
...these desires may be properly fulfilled. Professor Alfred Zimmera, present Godkin Lecturer, offers an answer in an interview published elsewhere in this issue. Next summer in the Geneva School of International Studies of which he is a faculty member, five hundred students and professors of forty different nation alities will begin their seventh season establishing cultural and intellectual contacts between nations...
...case was dismissed last fortnight. From these things he probably conceived his great hate of the Teuton shadow. Last week he accused Senator Moses, former State Attorney General Merton E. Lewis, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn "and his partner Warburg," Oswald Garrison Villard (editor of The Nation), and others, of German propaganda-all in his lengthy written attack on American I. G. Chemical Corp., which he sent to the office of the State Attorney General...