Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President had announced his intention of selling his radio fireside chats to an advertising sponsor, it could scarcely have caused more outraged bowlings than his spring publication list. The New York Herald Tribune found it "so . . . steep a descent for a President as to give the whole nation pause." In the House, Michigan's Republican Clare E. Hoffman accused the President of "using his ... office as his advertising agency," and retaining a monopoly. Circulated in Washington was the story that when offered a fat contract for a series of daily broadcasts. John Nance Garner had replied: "What Jack Garner...
That arch-Republican Statesman-Educator, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, signalized the occasion by announcing to the U. S.: "Step by step, during this 20-year period, Estonia has moved forward toward stronger and more clearly defined democratic institutions. [Estonians are] building their nation upon principles which the people of the United States so fully understand and heartily applaud...
After 20 years of vigorous rule, Pats gave his country on Jan. 1 a new democratic constitution. It promises democratic rights to the nation's 1,100,000 people (88% of them Estonians), guarantees minority rights to Russians (8%) and Germans (1½%), disestablishes the church (most Estonians are Lutherans...
Revelation No. 2: Much more pretentiously Klim announced that the Soviet Union is today prepared to wage not only gas warfare but also germ warfare "upon the soil" of any nation which uses such weapons against Russia first...
Said the Committee: "Glaring inequalities characterize educational opportunities and expenditures for schools throughout the nation. The level of educational service that can be maintained under present circumstances in many localities is below the minimum necessary for the preservation of democratic institutions...