Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having jolted the U. S. five months before by appointing radical Hugo LaFayette Black to the Supreme Court, Franklin Roosevelt last week chose to jolt the nation by his conservative appointment to the Court. So one afternoon White House Executive Clerk Maurice C. Latta marched in to the Senate with the nomination of retiring Justice George Sutherland's successor: Stanley Forman Reed. So, also, photographers stormed Solicitor General Reed in his office (see cut) to catch him before he put on judicial dignity...
Recently Eamon de Valera secured the adoption of a new Constitution which has changed the Free State into Eire (TIME, July 12 et ante). The new Constitution is so drawn that the "territory" of Mr. de Valera's nation "consists" of the whole island, and yet its "jurisdiction" today is only over what was formerly the Free State and not over Northern Ireland (see map).* Not only does Eire have to be mapped as two areas at once, but the whole conception is of a Catholic Irish nature, recalling that the new Constitution opens with the words...
...Many readers of the Times," declared the New Statesman and Nation, "must have been puzzled by the following sentence that appeared in the Times'?, report of Mr. Parker's speech in the debate on Foreign Affairs on December 21st...
...allow for the expansion of German interests along lines which it is patently destined to follow. ... If there is to be peace, there can be no exemption from contribution and concession-neither for Germans, nor for Czechs, nor for the British Empire either. . . . The gravitational pull of a nation of 70,000,000 [Germany] cannot be denied...
...last autumn persuaded the Prime Minister to send another of their group, Lord Halifax, to talk Rapprochement directly with Adolf Hitler (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). How far this attitude of the Times had gone was pointed up last week when London's liberal New Statesman and Nation intimated that it had caught the Times off base...