Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt was assured tonight by his financial advisers that the nation's economic structure could withstand any shock arising from outbreak of a European...
...desire for war. If this is true there need be no war. ... It is still clear to me that international problems can be solved at the council table. ... I trust that you may be willing to make such a statement of policy to me as the head of a nation far removed from Europe in order that I, acting only with the responsibility and obligation of a friendly intermediary, may communicate such declaration to other nations...
...most practical manner of opening up avenues of international trade to the end that every nation of the earth may be enabled to buy and sell on equal terms in the world market, as well as to possess assurance of obtaining the materials and products of peaceful economic life...
...nation-wide figures are disheartening. In 1938 two and a half million youths failed to attend school. Even more serious is the fact that of seventy million adults, no less than sixty-four million had never finished high school. Enlightened America is found to be lacking schools and money and well-trained teachers. In 1935 forty-two thousand schools had not the funds to complete their year...
...support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools of the standard set elsewhere. In 1930 its farm population included 13 per cent of the nation's children, but its farmers produced only two per cent of the nation's income. If the youth of rural America are to have equality in education, the Harrison Bill is their only hope...