Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> "In these days of tension ... we must all stand together . . . fulfill our obligations to the nation, regardless of political or partisan considerations," Franklin Roosevelt wrote last week, canceling a political engagement and making Republicans wonder how far non-political national unity is expected to go by 1940.
Franklin Roosevelt in his proclaimed emergency last week used only three of his emergency powers, 1) He ordered the Army enlarged from 210,000 to 227,000, the Navy from 116,000 to 145,000, the Marine Corps from 19,000 to 25,000, the National Guard from 190,000...
But the President invoked them. Correspondents at a regular press conference saw him in vigorous mood, as ebullient and confident as in the crisis days of 1933. Behind him sat pale, libertarian Frank Murphy. Mr. Roosevelt announced that what he was about to say would justify no scarelines, nothing but...
"I'm just trying to be forehanded," Henry Morgenthau explained, as he made an announcement that wakened memories of 1917: the appointment of the first dollar-a-year-men of World War II. They were three bankers: able, affable Tom K. Smith, 57, of St. Louis, a distinguished veteran...
Newsboy, candy-butcher, Harvard athlete-in three summers as a bus-driver he made $5,000-Kennedy's life has gone in the sections and jerks of a fast freight train. He was a bank examiner for 18 months, a bank president for three years (youngest in the U...