Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effective in the political arena. Moreover, the fundamental argument for repeal, that a shortening of the war's duration and an increase in the Allies' chances of victory maximize America's chances of staying at peace--this argument cannot be stated by anyone in authority. To change a nation's legislation for the express purpose of aiding one belligerent as against the other is to commit an unneutral act under international law; this the United States dare not do. So she must keep her purposes to herself...
Fascist Germany had the rebuilding of 15 years of Republican Germany to take advantage of when Fascists seized power; Poland's rulers inherited ruins. Communist Russia had immeasurably vaster resources to begin with, and her rulers had the total confiscated wealth of the nation. But when Poland was set up at the end of World War I the area it took over had lost...
Hooton 's view of modern Germany: "[Germany] repeatedly threatens the ruin of Western civilization, because this nation is composed of organic blends which, for some unknown genetic reasons, combine marvelous understanding of mechanical techniques with utter obtusity in human relations, and which are of a suggestibility so extreme that they are more easily possessed by devils than were the Gadarene swine...
...that never came. One & all, they cooled their heels last week, copied official hand-outs from the Ministry of Information in London, drank pernods at the bar of the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, while youngsters who had never seen a war before kept cables quivering with stories of a nation's despair and death...
...Dryden in 1920. An instructor at Columbia, he collaborated with his brother Carl on a textbook in 1925 (American & British Literature Since 1890). A poet of steadily finer weave and frosty skill, he published his Collected Poems this year. From 1935 to 1938 he studied cinema as The Nation's movie critic. And for the last ten years he has taught at Columbia a course called English 35 and 36, in which all the plays of Shakespeare are read through one after another...