Word: nationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Garner is a liberal and a great liberal ... a great American who in my humble opinion has been marked by the hand of destiny to become the President of the greatest, richest and most powerful nation of all time...
...biggest (3,275,000 sq. mi.) South American nation and potentially the greatest in reserves is Brazil. In recent years Brazil has become a commercial battleground between the U. S. and Nazi Germany, on which the stakes are trade and cultural supremacy. The U. S. might already have lost the war had it not been for a Brazilian campaign squabble in 1930. That fight ended in a revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo...
Behind most of Belgium's recent political troubles has been the rising strength of the Flemish-speaking people. From 1831, when Belgium gained her independence from The Netherlands, until 1914. Belgium's rulers considered the nation an outpost of France. French was then the sole official language. Flemish, as closely akin to Dutch as American is to English, was the language of servants and peasants...
...Flemings constitute half Belgium's population. Increasingly conscious of their numbers, they have demanded-and got-more political power. As fast as possible they have been pulling the nation away from its French moorings. During the World War many Flemish districts were pro-German. Now many Flemings flaunt a desire to join up with The Netherlands...
...rogue most beloved in the U. S. is a precocious, conceited, impertinent, fast-cracking ventriloquist's dummy named Charlie McCarthy. On Sunday nights from eight till nine EST, when the U. S. radio audience reaches its peak for the week, almost a third of the nation tunes in on the Chase and Sanborn Hour to hear Charlie make rude and clever remarks to important people...