Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...become almost a mythical being, but he isn't a myth-he's a reptile. He deserves to die. He has no right to live." Gathering of corset-makers that night hailed Judge Lyle as "our next mayor." New Move. Four agencies were at work in the nation's two largest cities last week to abate the pestilence of gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort, Tony ("Mops...
...page advertisements in 23 newspapers (TIME, March 24). Last week World's Work tried a plan similar to Life's but somewhat more amorphous: it "sponsored" an expression of "confidence" in and "deep gratitude" to President Hoover -a "unified and dramatic expression on the part of the nation's leaders." Over 5,000 letters signed by Editor Russell Doubleday were sent to business and professional men throughout the U. S., soliciting endorsements to a full-page newspaper advertisement to appear Jan. 2. Also solicited were contributions "not to exceed $100" to buy the space in as many...
...businessmen who are laying out the nation's passenger airlines have not yet devised any rite for the opening of a new line comparable to the railroad rite of Driving the Golden Spike.∙At the opening last week of one more new artery of air travel-Eastern Air Transport's line between Atlanta and New York∙-one spike-driver, had there been a spike to drive, would have been brusque, bulky Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular...
...strapping young Chicago reporter stepped into a cinema theatre. It was perhaps the third time in his life he had "gone to the movies." What he saw-D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-made his eyes pop, his heart thump. An industry doing things like that, he decided, was the place for him. So Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire...
...poetry, asked Russell to join the movement, and it was in this way that AE became interested in farming and economics. He has since been a believer in agriculture and its benefits to civilization. It is his theory that in the farming population lies the future of every nation. The man of the city is blighted by the noise and confusion, and if ever the farming population should cease to be, civilization could not last more than three generations, he claims...