Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard he said: 'I believe in International Houses. There is much theory that will not stand up when people of different countries are thrown together. They must live in close contact in order really to establish an understanding. Individual friendships determine the individual's opinion of a whole nation...
...create a psychology in Europe, favorable for the long overdue conference for reduction of land armaments. The huge armies of Europe are a menace to the peace of the world. They are a heavy economic burden, not only because of their overloading of the budgets of struggling nations but also because of a system of conscription which robs a family of its wage earners for a year or more at a period of life when this is serious and constitutes a vast economic loss to the nation. A successful naval conference will give a notable impetus to the general disarmament...
...Martin L. Davey of Davey Tree Expert Co. of Kent, Ohio, onetime (1918-21, 1923-29) Congressman, candidate last year for the governorship of Ohio (TIME, March 5, 1928). Claiming no expert musical knowledge but believing that his political experience qualified him as judge, Politician Davey will wager 26 nation-wide radio programs, beginning Jan. 5, that people in the U. S. prefer oldtime melodies to either jazz or classical music. He explained: "My first purpose in putting on this program is to commemorate the golden anniversary of the conception of tree surgery by my father, John Davey. His idea...
...friend (J. B. Priestley) as looking at first glance "like a rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...
...National Student Federation of America will broadcast a program over a nation-wide network of stations this afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock...