Word: nation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's last two guesses are completely wrong. In the first place, this is a foreign, not a domestic quarrel for the German people, and they will rally together to prevent a second Versailles. And secondly, the nation has the same amount of food it always has had, but Nazi officials have been rationing it for years and storing it in large cold storage plants...
...started work, after getting his A.B. degree, as a reporter on the New York Tribune, but soon entered the banking field, where his rise was phenomenal. In 1911 he joined the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. and since then has served on the boards of many of the nation's largest corporations...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Cordell Hull today notified American shipping to stay out of war zones and warned belligerent powers that unrestricted attacks on this nation's sea-borne commerce will encounter firm opposition...
More important still is a cold analysis of the consequences of war in the light of historical evidence. What is the effect of an armed conflict upon a nation's birth rate, its mortality rate, its political organization, its ethics and culture? Democracy may be worth saving no matter what the aftermath. But perhaps the very effects of a war may destroy all the conditions necessary to its existence...
...Whitey's success in the field of propaganda doesn't stop with the gridiron. Why, it was Whitey who landed Dartmouth on the front page of all the nation's papers with the story of Heavenly Gates, the quarterback who left the pig-skin for a religious retreat...