Word: nationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explained that his action, which was supported by the nation's armed forces, was necessary to save the country from a "formidable economic crisin" and a "fratricidal struggle" being plotted by political parties in their "morbid desire" to seize power...
...Mark Jones, president of the Akron Belting Co., likes to tell teachers what is wrong with U. S. education. His theme last week: let the nation's educators dispel some costly national "illusions"; to wit, equality, security, collective bargaining, economic planning, democracy. Said...
Denver has a city ordinance banning movies that show lynchings or tend to incite race hatred. When Manager Robert Allen of South Denver's Jewell Theatre announced the 24-year-old film classic The Birth of a Nation as last week's attraction, he was warned that the ordinance would be invoked against him. He went ahead anyhow, at week's end had been formally arrested 16 times, once at each afternoon and evening showing. Challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a police-court show-down this week, Manager Allen will have on his side...
Such a tidal wave of foreign-owned securities poured into the U. S. market at the outbreak of war in 1914 that the New York Stock Exchange closed its doors, did not reopen for nearly five months. Since then the U. S. has changed from a debtor to creditor nation and its markets are less susceptible to foreign liquidation. Also since 1914 the Government has acquired, in the Federal Reserve and SEC, a degree of financial control far firmer than even the elder J. P. Morgan could mobilize. Thus last week, as official Washington unofficially talked of war within...
While the nation pondered these prosaic devices to protect it from disaster brewing abroad, up popped a trial balloon for a scheme far from prosaic. The balloonist: William Stix Wasserman, a big, self-assured Philadelphian...