Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee were asked by David Lasser, head of the Workers Alliance: "Is the majority in this Congress trying deliberately to provoke a situation of social disorder?"; were told by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, president of the United States Conference of Mayors: "Havoc will be rife throughout the nation." A committee of actors & artists visited Washington bearing petitions with 200,000 signatures demanding continuance of WPA arts projects. Cafeteria, hotel & restaurant workers telegraphed en masse. Senator Adams got one telegram which was delivered as follows: "Are you a man or a delete...
...Germany is the most unpopular foreign Government, disliked by 56.2% of U. S. citizens; Japan's Government is disliked by 11.9%; the Japanese people by 19.3%; Britain is the most popular foreign nation, its Government liked by 45.3%, its people by 40.3%. (FORTUNE...
...competition is extremely important to the seniors who reach the finals, for the winners and runners-up are generally given a choice of positions with several of the nation's leading law firms...
...trade supremacy in Argentina threatened, Britain some time ago began to knobble U. S. competition. She reportedly "requested" Argentina not to use British sterling to balance her obligations to the U. S., and Argentina is anxious to keep the economic patronage of a nation which buys the largest share of her chief products, grains and meat. Three months ago Argentina went further, set up a rigid exchange control plan...
Nonetheless, some thought they saw signs of overproduction in the nation's No. 1 industry when General Motors Corp. announced that it had sold 83,000 more cars to its dealers in the final quarter of 1938 than they had sold to customers. This was almost the same surplus as marked the final quarter of 1937. But there is a difference: Year ago dealer inventories were at a peak of 425,000 new, 800,000 used cars; last week, according to Detroit estimates, they were relatively normal-300,000 new cars, 450,000 used...