Word: nationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius ("Statia"). The President let it be known that he was following every minutest move of the opposing forces on a big chart in Admiral Leahy's quarters. "Results" of naval war games are not usually made public but this time nation and world looked forward to a Roosevelt's-eye account of what happened, in laymen's language, upon his return this week...
...right down to the job it had to do. After planting himself firmly in Iowa ("I was born and raised here. My father and mother spent their lives here"), Harry Hopkins gave his own picture of his new job. Running WPA he had served the nation's bottom third. Now he served "the two-thirds of the population earning their living by what we consider to be the normal process of our economic system." To bring his former clients up to par with his new ones, "if new jobs are to be provided, the national income must be increased...
Under the terms of the lecture foundation, which was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, the speaker must deal with some aspect of "the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers, include Walter Lippmann and Heinrich Bruening...
Today, W. M. Welch Manufacturing Co. is a $500,000 Chicago concern. Although diplomas have become so common that most of their owners scorn to display them, practically no graduate of the nation's 30,000 high schools and 1,000 colleges would dream of leaving school without one, and most elementary school graduates demand them, too. Mr. Welch's company, which supplies twice as many as any other firm, sells some 500,000 a year in high schools and colleges and 100,000 in elementary schools. Last week it started production of the 1939 models...
...still a good teacher and a poor one a menace to their children. To conscientious educators, who are everlastingly amazed that the same parents who insist on a fully qualified doctor will gamble on a teacher, improving the quality of the 1,000,000 U. S. teachers is the nation's No. 1 educational problem...