Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With three simultaneous meetings being held tonight, the American Civilization Plan is well-launched on its program of weekly House discussions...
Last night similar meetings were held at the Union, on the question of "What Caused the Constitution?" and at Dunster House, where "Wait Whitman's America" was treated. The speakers were Henry Nash Smith and Charles Miller, American Civilization counselors...
...industry drag this country into war, two important executives have recently provided strong words of reassurance. Colby M. Chester, president of the General Foods Co., and Ernest T. Weir, head of the big Weirton Steel Co., have both issued statements within the past month to the effect that "American business does not like war because it knows that war is bad business." They went on to say that industrial leaders in this country realize that a war boom is disastrous in the long run, and that they would act accordingly...
Quite obviously, U.S. business is all set for a war boom. Dangerous as such a boom may be, it is unavoidable. American public opinion would not permit any embargoes to be placed on our foreign trade, not only because it is profitable, but also because it is almost entirely with the Allies, with whom our sympathies lie. As a Washington wiseacre commented, "For once, the dough and the ideals are on the same side." They certainly seem to make an unbeatable combination. We can only pray that the Neutrality Bill, which seems soon to be passed, will keep the resulting...
...security will be created. Mr. Chester and Mr. Weir would do the U.S. a great service by giving attention to piloting their own corporations through the troubled days that lie ahead, and ceasing their elumsy attempts to fit a pair of rose-colored glasses to the noses of the American people...