Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hesitate to say that if I had been engaged in a political campaign as a citizen of some other American Republic I might have been strongly tempted to play upon the fears of my compatriots of that Republic by charging the United States of North America with some form of imperialistic desire for selfish aggrandizement. ... It therefore has seemed clear to me as President that the time has come to supplement and to implement the [nonaggression] declaration of President Wilson by the further declaration that the definite policy of the United States is one opposed to armed intervention...
Results of Manager Sherrill's four and a half year administration appropriately climax the tale of how a group of decent energetic citizens rescued their town. The city paid 22% less for its street building materials in 1926 than it had in 1925. Dirt which had cost $1.35 a yd. in 1925, cost 35? a yd, a year later. In 1926 Cincinnati paid $36,000 less for street maintenance than it had the year before "when it rode on holes." "Where," asks Author Taft, "had the money gone?" Whereas in 1925 a citizen with a 50 ft. frontage...
...year 1933 was the fourth in the greatest industrial crisis in history. Standing between an old world that was forever dead and a new world that was not fully born, whom would the discerning and alert U. S. citizen pick as Man of the Year? Notably barren of candidates was the British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
John and Mary were married in Toledo in 1930 and went to Ontario to live with Mary's parents. John lost his job and was refused relief because he was a U. S. citizen. In desperation he stole some gasoline, was sentenced to jail and deported. Mary could not go with him because she had once been in a reformatory, was an undesirable alien. Last November John tried in vain to persuade the Labor Department to let Mary cross the border for Thanksgiving. Said he last week: "I guess there is nothing more...
Frederick Henry Prince is generally regarded as New England's richest citizen and Boston's crustiest celebrity. Hard-bitten son of a Democratic Boston mayor, he quit Harvard to enter the brokerage business, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder, quickly became one of State Street's most spectacular figures. His firm of F. H. Prince &; Co. installed the first stockticker in Boston. In the 1890's he developed Chicago Junction Railway, which he later leased for 99 years to New York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago...