Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt, whose U. S. popularity is higher than her husband's in current polls, last week went into type on her own account. While her husband was catching what-for from the Senate on his foreign policy, in circumstances not dissimilar to Woodrow Wilson's 1919 dilemma (see p. 12), Mrs.Roosevelt wrote: "As far as possible I never discuss questions of partisan politics...
Thompsonites. With her background of eight years as a correspondent in Vienna and Berlin before the rise of Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson last December joined Publicists Herbert Sebastian Agar (Louisville Courier-Journal) and Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration...
Twenty-nine awards, totaling $4,500, for graduate and undergraduate study during the present academic year, were announced by the University today. Nine states and one foreign country are represented by the recipients...
With most of Europe convinced that the fall of Barcelona was not the end of the trouble but perhaps the real beginning, war-scare was doubtless primarily to blame for the break. Brokers reported heavy liquidation from abroad. Acute weakness in foreign dollar issues led bond prices down. The Dutch guilder was weak. And, as always when Europe has the jitters, the heavy flow of gold to the U. S. quickened. In one day last week London arranged to ship...
...Foreign consumers met the difference in several ways-with U. S. money left in Europe by tourists, sent home by emigrants or paid to foreign shippers carrying U. S. goods. But the principal way they paid for goods was with gold, of which the U. S. now holds 60% of the world's monetary supply...