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Word: nationalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, who looks at the problem from a national viewpoint, must get Congress, who looks at the problem in a sectional manner, to pass his recommendations. Then the Supreme Court can invalidate them. Then the States may attempt to impinge their sovereignty. What civilized nation has such a hodge-podge of government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Councillor Norton Calls Federal Setup "Hodge-Podge" at Guardian Confab | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

...before the government creates any new additions to the administrative tree, it would do well to prune off the already dead limbs. President Roosevelt's reorganization bill last year was killed not because of any flaw in the bill itself but because an unjustly irate nation sought to render a personal rebuke to the President. An intelligently-drafted bill on the same order, if quietly presented, despite the more moderate Congress, might very well be passed, and with executive reorganization it is probable that many of the proposed bureaus would be unnecessary. Rather than build onto an already-tottering executive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, '39 MODEL | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

Before falling ill last week the Pope turned his attention to another democratic nation, England. He appointed Monsignor William Godfrey, rector of the English College in Rome, to be Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain-the first representative of the Pope in Protestant Great Britain since the 16th Century. Not a diplomatic official like a Papal Nuncio, an Apostolic Delegate acts as liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy of a nation. Monsignor Godfrey will have access to the British Foreign Office, may well be able to report to the Pope, at firsthand, on Britain's dealings with Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope & Democracy | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...post-Revolutionary War period who was known as the Talleyrand of Alabama for his skill in playing off Spanish-American antagonisms for Creek benefit. Son of a Scottish trader and a French-Indian woman, McGillivray owned slaves, suffered from venereal disease, died in his 303, preserved the Creek nation a full generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Source Material | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...labor's right to strike, were not the methods a democratic premier should have chosen. He and the present deputies were elected one the pledge to uphold labor's demand for a forty-hour week; Daladier later reversed his own stand; but he had no right to change the nation's mind by coercion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POST-MORTEM PARLIAMENT | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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