Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chorus: "Our nation needs a leader just like...
...peer through the fog that surrounds Russian policy, and be ready to make the most of possibilities for peace. Now if ever there is a need for cool heads and complete, accurate information for them to work on, not only in the State Department, but in the nation as a whole...
Although situated far away in Northwest Europe, Finland has long been considered a close friend by Americans. It is a strong, clean, upstanding nation; its government is democratic, it has always minded its own business, and held no designs of aggression. Finland is the land of Sibelius, the land where the Olympics were to be held; the land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they...
Around 1910-when basketball began to bounce baseball out of the gymnasium-the Playground Society of America hauled indoor baseball outdoors as a good game for kids, added a tenth player (a rover). During the Depression, the U. S. army of unemployed, invading the nation's public parks, played playground ball (or kitten-ball, mushball, diamond ball-depending on the locality). As they dribbled back to work, they took their new pastime with them. Commercially sponsored teams popped up everywhere. Playground ball, renamed softball, became the No. 1 after-work diversion (as player or spectator) for U. S. office...
...much to be asking on the morning before the first houseparty night of the season, we have always wanted to know just what were the great benefits bestowed upon the nation by the nineteenth or woman's suffrage amendment--a law which was ballyhooed to set America on the road to Utopia...