Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means the only such doings by which the President's endurance is regularly tested. Last week, his principal social relaxation after five working days in which 1) the directors of TVA carried their family squabble into his White House office (see p. 14), 2) the nation's deepening Recession was abetted by the shocking business failure of an old Grottie, and 3) Adolf Hitler threw Europe into a panic for the second time in a month, was the annual White House Correspondents' dinner...
...Crimson coach, who has nursed the game from its infancy in 1914 to a nation-wide pastime today, it was just a sign that squash is growing up, that the pupil is getting good enough to beat the master now and then...
...other hand, if the government established a national educational board, it would not have to control national learning. As under the Committee's present plan, direct control of appropriations would not necessitate control of what is taught. There is little danger that the government will, or can, subvert the public school curriculum which is the same throughout the nation by withholding funds from some, subsidizing others. In the one case, therefore, in which the Roosevelt administration can make good use of federal efficiency, it seems to be abandoning it for political policy...
...Conant challenged the view that students are better off if they stay in school and study for an overcrowded profession than if they leave school and become unemployed. Said he, "The existence of any large number of highly educated individuals whose ambitions have been frustrated is unhealthy for any nation...
Thus last week wrote RFC Chairman Jesse Jones to inform the nation's banks that RFC's 32 offices (with about $1,500,000,000 in the kitty) are once more open for business. The riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington last month called loudest for increased credit facilities. Last week Jesse Jones revealed that the day after Franklin Roosevelt untied RFC's purse strings, it received loan applications from 200 small businessmen. RFC now welcomes such applications no matter how small...