Word: nation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt proclaimed last week that on Oct. 11 the nation would honor Count Casimir Pulaski.* Thus he reminded the world of U. S. sympathy for Poland, turned U. S. eyes towards the 4,000,000 Polish-Americans settled throughout the land...
Nationwide rallies and memorial services would signalize their Week, beginning Oct. 11, climaxed at week's end by parades. In Poland, no Polish flag yet waves, but in the U. S. the mourners of a dead nation this week marched to their colors, sang with hope their anthem, Poland Is Not Yet Lost...
...Admiralty man in London inquired last week whether the U. S. expects Great Britain to let any nation or group of nations neutralize an area extending as far as 1,000 miles out on the high seas. The London Times said out loud: "Any action taken by an American Navy to enforce [the Declaration] would . . . amount to an act of war and nothing else...
...resolution. "I never have been and am not a member of the Communist Party," said he. "I refuse, however, to join any witch hunt. ... I refuse to participate in a campaign which leads inevitably to the suppression of the labor movement and all liberal and progressive forces in the nation...
...beginning of a national emergency, perhaps the greatest since the period when an Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln, brooding over a political speech, decided to let the phrase, "a house divided against itself cannot stand," remain in the text. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence of collisions and calamities, no one of which would have been believed for a minute by the industrious philosophers of 1929. While the echoes of the crash were still rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun...