Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "Take the patriotic approach. . . . The nation has an interest in every expectant mother because her child may be a boy. Even if it isn't, it at least is the potential mother of future boys...
Japan under Emperor Hirohito has much in common with England under Queen Victoria. Last week every Japanese read with pride a state-of-the-nation speech delivered to the 73rd session of the Imperial Parliament by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It might have been Lord Palmerston speaking, it might have been years ago, but it was actually Mr. Hirota voicing the aspirations of Japan in terms as serene as those used by Queen Victoria's ministers to express their gratification at the progress of Imperialism...
This broad Victorian background on the state-of-the-nation and the world gave the part of the speech which Mr. Hirota devoted to China its special weight. Victorians had their devils, and Mr. Hirota did not conceal his horror at the fact that "members of the Communist International have penetrated all classes of the Chinese, destroying the social order of the country and endangering the stability of East Asia!" He found it "most lamentable . . . for the sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran was unduly grave as he broke ground for a new group of U. S. Public Health Service re-search buildings near Washington fortnight ago. No one in the nation knew better than he the necessity of hurrying the construction and use of the establishment. For in his Washington office lay a heap of data, accumulated by inquiring...
...Every man, woman and child (on the average) in the nation suffers ten days of incapacity annually...