Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southerners who swarmed into the auditorium of conservative Birmingham, Ala. last week for a Southern Conference for Human Welfare, were scores of Negroes, mostly educated. As this was a "progressive conference expressing the progressive spirit of the South," in response to the findings of President Roosevelt's National Emergency Council on "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (TIME, July 18), blacks mingled freely with whites in selecting their seats. They did so, at least, for two days. Then the police of Birmingham appeared and, herding the black delegates into a segregated section, enforced the city...
...Mississippi's fourth lynching this year, the nation's seventh...
...doubts that this is not the problem let him look to Poland, where the Poles are beginning to ask whether the great powers are going to assist Hitler by caring for his victims while they fail to provide an outlet for the surplus population of a nation that does not resort to such violence...
Pared down on three sides by territorial slicings of Germany. Hungary and Poland after the Munich Deal, what is left of Czechoslovakia was last week split in two. Germany demanded and got a corridor 40 miles long, 197 feet wide through the slim middle of the whittled little nation. Along this strip Adolf Hitler will build one of his Autobahnen, which will run from Breslau in German Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed...
Veteran Appeasers. Some 5,000,000 strong, the French National Confederation of War Veterans this week viewed with such alarm the proposed General Strike of the French General Confederation of Labor, that it made two requests. It asked the 5,000,000 Laborers (i. e., Strike-Potent Jouhaux) to "reconsider the danger of general action which, pushed to the limit, would compromise the security of the nation." On the other hand, it asked the State (i. e., Decree-Potent Daladier) to "seek all means of calming the nation's emotions and of appeasing the social conflict." To most Frenchmen...