Word: nationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmers received their due from Harry Hopkins, who said: "Our farm homes receive less than 10% of the national income and on that they must bring up about 30% of the nation's children . . . the most important crop raised on the farm...
...nation's urge to rearm, so suddenly felt last autumn, so boldly cultivated by Franklin Roosevelt with warnings about the Dictators, was last week driving his national defense program steadily through Congress-when something happened to the urge. All went well...
Basic reason for Poland's adventitious foreign policy is to be found not only in its geographical situation but also in its internal socio-political structure. Poland is neither a small nor a large nation. With a population of only 34,000,000, with a coastline of only 75 miles, with undeveloped industries and with its economy predominantly agricultural, it can scarcely convince Europe that it is a great power. At the same time it is not so weak as to become a natural pawn for one of Europe's ideological combinations...
...since there has been a growing desire among many Mexicans for a more moderate policy than President Cárdenas', and best-informed opinion last week was that the well-organized labor and peasant blocs had sensed this desire and accordingly backed a candidate sure to get the nation's approval...
Maps. One of the artistic hits of the Paris Exposition of 1937 was a large map of Austria painted on the walls of the Austrian pavilion. The nation is gone but the notion came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps...