Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first notification of election: "That Washington would have refused public service if the call had been a normal one has always been my belief. But the summons to the Presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emergency. The dangers that beset the young nation were as real as though the very independence Washington had won for it had been threatened once more by foreign foes...
...Herr Himmler will quietly, without public fanfare, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his appointment as Inspector of the Gestapo. Troops will march down Berlin's Unter den Linden and through the crowded Tiergarten as the 50-year-old Führer receives the frenzied homage of an adoring nation. Clustered around Herr Hitler on a reviewing stand are to be the familiar, conspicuous figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, mousy little Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, coarse, Jew-baiting Julius Streicher, Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, Labor Front Leader...
...when Norway followed the suit of many another nation and asked restless Revolutionary Léon Trotsky to leave its shores, Mexico's famed Muralist Diego Rivera arranged to have the exile go to Mexico. Muralist Rivera's young, pretty German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo, a painter in her own right, put Trotsky in the blue-washed, bougainvillea-covered house in Coyoacán where she had been born, told him to stay as long as he wanted. At first the Trotskys and the Riveras got along beautifully. Diego Rivera issued a furious pro-Trotskyist manifesto...
...elementary school age had no school to go to. Most of them were in poor farm areas that could not maintain a school. Hard times and a slump in real-estate tax collections (still the public schools' chief source of support) increased the number of unschooled children. The nation's public education system rallied from Depression three years ago, but this year was struck again by the backlash of the 1937 Recession. By last week so many distress signals flew over U. S. schoolhouses that educators were thoroughly alarmed...
Collegiate historians last week were ready to record the months of March and April, 1939, as among the maddest in the annals of U. S. undergraduates. On campuses throughout the land, the nation's reckless collegians madly gulped almost every conceivable object. Beginning with goldfish (TIME, April 10), they went on to swallow worms, magazines, snakes (see p. 2), footballs, gunpowder...