Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alma mater that is making them men of character and good citizens for the future. We enjoy here on this campus the liberties given to us by our forefathers in the Constitution and the Declaration of independence with more ampleness and vastness than any other student body in the nation's universities...
...year will be "so far as many cities are concerned but an idle gesture." Alternatives, they said, were a further appropriation, or amendment of the clause requiring money so far voted to last twelve months. The mayors used alarming words like "wreck," "collapse," "destruction." Their most piteous alarm: "The nation has no alternative but to do this if the present economic system is to endure...
...peace plan" in which the Germans would be offered an international loan of $5,000,000,000 to enable them to change the Third Reich's economy from a war to a peace basis. Another story, originating in Washington and printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, predicted a five-nation conference between Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy and Poland which would give Danzig to Germany, change the status of the Polish Corridor, give Italy rights in Djibouti and representation on the Suez Canal Board and then freeze all European frontiers, either for 25 years or permanently...
...accepting what is reputed to be the world's greatest private Italian collection, in the name of the U. S. people, President Roosevelt thanked Storeman Kress for setting an example that is "a decided step in the realization of the true purpose of the National Gallery." No new thing to self-effacing Philanthropist Kress is example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their...
...Federal Reserve economic troubleshooter, Currie quickly won recognition inside political brain-picking circles. But not till May 1939 (via his becharted Temporary National Economic Committee testimony on capital investment) did nation-wide public recognition come for his analytical prowess...