Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One of the few things "Uncle Dan" Roper did for the New Deal, besides afford unintentional comic relief as Secretary of Commerce, was help Jim Farley organize the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Young Democrats are aged 21 to 39 and some 5,000,000 of them are now enrolled...
≫On hand to watch proceedings was Treasurer Oliver A. Quayle Jr. of the Democratic National Committee. He took occasion to state that his party had received only a $50,000 loan (since repaid) from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers for the 1936 campaign. Mr. Quayle next day...
Catholics and Socialists could combine to put conservative Dr. Colijn out, but neither was strong enough to put anyone else in. Traditional parliamentary behavior for such conservatives as Jonkheer de Geer would have been to watch Catholic and Socialist leaders flounder through the attempt, gleefully call attention to each failure...
A conspicuous sight in Japanese streets nowadays are crowds of housewives in khaki smocks or calico aprons-uniforms of the Women's Patriotic Society (750,000 members) and of the Women's Organization for National Defence (4,500,000 members). Their activities include Banzai parties for departing soldiers...
Japanese spinsters, too, are making hay. Hundreds of them have been hired by the Government as Peeping Thomasinas. Some of them loiter around the luxury counters of department stores, taking notes on their sisters who squander yen on beauty creams instead of patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens...