Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas address to the world, Franklin Roosevelt said: ". . Let us hope that the boon of peace which we in this country and in the whole Western Hemisphere enjoy under the providence of God may likewise be vouchsafed to all nations and all peoples. We desire peace. We shall work for peace. We covet neither the lands nor the possessions of any other nation or people...
...Like. Not since 1917 has the U. S. given any nation such a comeuppance. It was stronger than the recent notes to Germany on the repudiated Austrian debt and the refugee problem, stronger than the "temporary recall" of Ambassador Hugh Wilson. It was so strong that the Nazi Government did not even let its press tell the German people about it. It was as close to a severance of diplomatic relations as two "friendly" nations...
Typical of the brigade's personnel was the roll of last week's homecomers. Among them: 25-year-old Brigade Commissar (political instructor) John Gates from Youngstown, Ohio; Sergeant Gerald Cook, office boy for the pinko Nation; Lieut. Manny Lancer, formerly of the Workers Alliance; Sergeant Thomas Page, a Manhattan Negro (wounded on the Ebro front): an lowan who became Captain Owen Smith; 20-year-old Nurse Rose Waxman of Manhattan. Saddest of the heroes was a lad whose parents met him at the dock, snatched off his purple military beret, hopped up & down on it, indignantly marched...
...expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors pump-priming within limits, answered by a letter which he gave to the press, lecturing Critic Byrd and the nation on "the pertinent facts" about the Budget, Taxes, Debt...
Moving Day. A new nation cannot be built overnight. Driven by the whip of war, the life of China began to flee west ward soon after the first shots were fired at Peking 18 months ago. Students, long the spark plugs of China's national life, were among the first to go. Whole universities, libraries and laboratories moved bag & baggage, hundreds of miles, to regions which before the war had never seen books or schools. Several institutions were set up in the new capital Chungking (''Heavenly Residence"), others went to Chengtu, Sian, Changsha and far-off Kunming...