Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing that bothered serious, 29-year-old Leo Calvin Rosten all the while he was working for a doctorate of political science & economy at the University of Chicago was the nation's lack of critical interest in the Washington press corps. It seemed ironic to Mr. Rosten that "we have been more concerned with the talents of men who incarcerate animals in public pounds, than with those of the men who have the license to disseminate information about the political order under which we live...
...Rosten discovered that among daily newspapers the New York Times is best read by the Washington corps, considered most reliable, most desirable to work for. Hearstpapers and the Chicago Tribune are rated least fair and reliable. Among the weekly magazines, TIME and the Nation tallied first and second in readership...
Timesman Holden explained that the Society had decided to name five nonjournalistic honorary members each year, naturally selected the nation's chief executive and chief judiciary officer for first honors. Promptly the American Newspaper Guild protested to the President, asked him to reconsider his affiliation with the Society, "that the dignity of his office may not be abused to lend prestige to any movement hostile to the interests of legitimate trade unionism." A similar resolution was dispatched to the Chief Justice, the leftist Guild being entirely willing to let the Society keep Herbert Hoover...
...Alexander Wilson. Neither artists nor scientists liked or trusted his unseemly wedding of science with art; both avowed the result was properly neither. Audubon, who thought of himself as first a backwoodsman, then an artist, did not live to hear their paltry jibes drowned in the ringing praise a nation so often belatedly bestows on its foremost citizens...
With a daily average output of 123,800 bbl. this year, Mexico ranks as the world's seventh largest oil-producing nation.* Oil is Mexico's fourth-largest industry but it is almost entirely controlled by foreign firms, which currently have a $450,000,000 investment in it. This has long rankled nationalistic Mexicans, who not only covet the foreign-held oil fields but see justification in Mexico's taking them, since a Mexican legal principle from the time when the country was a Spanish colony until 1857 held that the Government owned all subsoil rights. From...