Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Susan Myrick, Associate Editor and Farm Editor of the Macon Telegraph, probably the only woman in the nation to serve in this capacity, swings more influence with Middle Georgia farms on soil conservation than anyone [and] is regarded as the best informed and most helpful person in the area on agricultural problems...
Last week the nation's newspapers were filled with big, black headlines telling of labor's new wants for 1949. From the sidewalks of New York to the docks of Honolulu, the powerful C.I.O. and its 6,000,000 members were on the march. How far could they march, how much would they demand, in the midst of what Harry Truman called "a declining national economy...
Down in the White House basement, Harry Truman stood close to the cluster of microphones and faced the hot stare of television cameras. He sounded like the Truman of campaign days as he spoke to the nation in his chatty Missouri twang. "Now, some people are saying . . . that we're in a depression," said the President...
...issue has been raised," cried the speaker. "The country is looking at what we do in the next half-hour." The issue-whether Communists should be allowed to teach-was far & away the nation's knottiest academic problem. In Boston last week at its annual convention, the powerful National Education Association (825,000 state and national members) took its stand...
Even as the economy showed signs of getting its second wind, a new threat arose-the possibility of the first serious wave of strikes since 1947. Now, as then, the test would come in the nation's two biggest industries, steel and autos. In both, the C.I.O. was already threatening to strike to get a fourth round of wage boosts...