Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... If TIME has no rule against gangster pictures,* I offer as candidate for your front cover the greatest gangster of our times- the only mobster to hijack a great nation, the only racketeer to shake down an entire race of mankind-Adolf Hitler...
...with communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions. You think of me perhaps as the inventor of the economic royalist, of the wicked utilities, of the money changers of the temple. You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe; that I was driving the nation into bankruptcy, and that I breakfasted every morning on a dish of 'grilled millionaire...
Messrs. Lubin, Thorp & Henderson were unanimous that the Investigation must find a way to increase the earning-consuming quotient of the nation's low-pay masses if the U. S. machine's performance is to be made magnificent...
...reasonable demands he might make to implement his "Three Year Plan" of internal and external bulwarking. And to the French people he broadcast: "What triumphed today was the principle of the Republic itself-its respect for law, its respect for the right to work and its respect for the nation. The French people showed that they realized that their liberties were not threatened by the Government...
...Serbia had been expanded into a nation twice its original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary. The population was thus trebled (to 15,000,000) and all the south Slavs (Yugoslavia means "land of south Slavs") were united. Yugoslavia became, after Rumania, the second largest Balkan State (area: 96,000 square miles...