Word: nationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Crisis last September, this simple prayer has arisen daily at high noon throughout Britain, on the lips or in the hearts of countless Christians. In Britain, which has been perhaps more hag-ridden by fear of war than any other nation, the spread of this prayer unites Anglicans and Nonconformists as they have not been united in centuries. The sponsor of the 27-word petition is the League of Prayer and Service, which thereby has become England's biggest religious organization: no less than 2,500,000 people have enrolled for its prayer cards...
What manner of soul has Al Capone, only he and his Lord know. In the Terminal Island prison in San Pedro Bay, California (whither he was transferred last January), the nation's most notorious criminal attends Roman Catholic Mass, confesses his sins regularly. But, like most prisoners, who will do anything to get out of their cells, he also attends Protestant and Christian Science services. Last month a Baptist minister thought he saw a chance for Al Capone's soul, and plucked it forthrightly. The Rev. Silas A. Thweatt (rhymes with "bleat") of San Pedro, detailed...
Silver miners, now prospering at the nation's expense, may consider such speculation academic. But last week none other than Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board attacked the Silver-Purchase program from an angle which might well give the industry pause. Said he to a Senate committee...
...many biographies of reformers have recently appeared that it may become an open question whether their work was ever as important as their books about it. But for Oswald Garrison Villard, owner for 15 years of The Nation, and tireless champion of civil liberties, no such question is possible. Son of the builder of the Northern Pacific, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, friend of liberals big and little, Villard has more than most of the autobiographers to write about, if the criterion were staying power, number of fights, and refusal to admit defeat...
...Munich and Berlin. He was held up when reactionaries broke into a Bavarian legislative session, kidnapped radical delegates. There are enough such climaxes in the 543 forthright, unsparing pages of Fighting Years to make it a valuable record. But Author Villard writes of revolution and shifts in The Nation's policy in the same steady way-for him, obviously, the battles are more important than his book...