Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing this, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of Eire was able to get tough with Britain last week over the project of conscripting Irishmen for the British Army in the six counties of Northern Ireland (TIME, May 8). He warned: "We claim the whole of Ireland as national territory, and...
Although British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had promised that recently inaugurated conscription measures would be applied in Northern Ireland only in time of national emergency, Mr. de Valera demanded that it be forsworn completely. Even the imperialist London Times observed editorially that this sort of fight was just "the kind...
A successful surgeon with his own private practice is Professor Bertram Bernheim of Johns Hopkins. But he does not have much faith in the U. S. system of private medical care. He sees the public asking for more adequate, low-cost medical service, sees national health insurance coming, and he...
Years ago plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in...
Since it really got down to work 21 years ago, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded by Act of Congress in 1915) has turned out many a valuable contribution to aircraft and engine design. Its studious scientists, working in a grotesque collection of wind tunnels and other research machinery...