Word: nationalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mess of pottage for which Esau-in-the-Mass would exchange his birthright; it's the sheep's clothing enabling the wolf to slit the throats of the flock; it's a Nefarious Device to Destroy a Nation; it's the Nutty Dream of the alchemist, the Nebulous Desire of the marijuana victim; it's a pain in the neck and a sword in the heart...
Politically the New Deal represents an attempt to place 51% of the nation's voters on the Government payroll, and thus to perpetuate the Roosevelt dynasty...
...agreement, strictly on a two-nation basis, made no mention of Austrian debts owed the U. S., France and half-a-dozen smaller powers. At the time of repudiation, these nations, with Britain, lodged stiff protests in Berlin. Britain, however, was the only power in a position to bring the Reich to any sort of terms. Since Britain annually buys $49,440,000 more goods from Germany than she sells, all she had to do was to clamp on exchange clearing control, deduct the debt payments from British money owed German exporters. Germany acted before this got beyond the threat...
Prime political issue in Great Britain today, even overshadowing the controversy around Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy, is the state of the nation's defense preparations. Opposition M. P.s and the anti-Chamberlain Conservative bloc, led by portly, eloquent Winston Churchill, have already blasted from office Viscount Swinton, former Air Secretary, have jarred big, burly Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Coordination of Defense, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and his assistant, Geoffrey Lloyd, in charge of air-raid precautions. The harried Prime Minister realizes that a far-reaching revelation of a breakdown in Britain...
Biggest professional organization in the U. S. is the National Education Association, which numbers some 225,000 (four-fifths women) of the nation's 1,000,000 school teachers. But teachers, who in many communities are expected to be politically as well as physically chaste, seldom raise their voices outside the classroom. Consequently they are perennially startled at the bold talk that springs up at the N. E. A.'s annual conventions, attended chiefly by the outspoken fringe...