Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only nation on the American continent which recognizes Japan's four-year-old puppet state of Manchukuo is tiny, coffee-producing El Salvador. Last week, in belated appreciation of El Salvador's gesture, made in March 1934 owl-eyed, thick-lipped Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Teh was graciously pleased to decorate El Salvador's Strong Man, swart, curly-haired President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araujo and the Salvadorean Consul General in Tokyo, León Siguenza...
...Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis. We must act before crisis ends in catastrophe. . . . God's living spirit calls each nation like each individual to its highest destiny and breaks down the barriers of fear and greed, of suspicion and haired...
Last week at an international Group houseparty in Interlaken, Switzerland gathered 2,000 Groupers from 40 nations. Though Oxford Group publicity (increasingly well-organized) featured such leaders as Foreign Minister J. A. N. Patijn of The Netherlands and Parliament President Carl J. Hambro of Norway-scheduled to speak at Interlaken-it w'as careful not to ignore the lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament...
...turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year ago as compared to 14% fortnight ago. Summarizing such statistics in his weekly press conference, Secretary of Commerce Roper, more sanguine than most industrialists, concluded that they marked a steady continuance of the "processes of recovery...
...most complete picture ever presented of the division of the national income" is what the National Resources Committee called the report it issued fortnight ago showing that 32% of the nation's family units and individuals had incomes under $750 a year, 47% under $1,000, 69% under $1,500 (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the Quarterly Journal of Economics published a somewhat supplementary treatise written by an economist as close to Capital as the National Resources Committee is to the New Deal...