Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guarding his witnesses sooner, so that innocent citizens who resemble them should not be erased by mistake. Furious in turn, Republican Dewey got guards for scores of other prospective Lepke witnesses, asked the city to post $25,000 reward for lethal Gangster Lepke, dead or alive, flooded the nation with Get-Lepke circulars...
...time passed the meaning of the treaty abrogation was more openly acknowledged. The nation was exhorted to call upon its reserve of selfdiscipline, to remain calm and optimistic. The U.S., it was argued, would probably not dare impose a trade embargo. If the worst happened, Japan could prepare for it in the next six months. And early this week anti-U.S. posters appeared in Tokyo streets, announced: "Britain, America and Russia are our common enemy...
Like many another minister who comes to London these days, Mr. Nash wanted to borrow money. New Zealand's Minister of Finance, Mr. Nash is also the author and executor of a comprehensive economic plan designed to turn agricultural New Zealand into a nation which can at least partially produce its own manufactured goods, and thus be less dependent on world prices. Although realizing that New Zealand will not for a long time be able to supply all its wants, Minister Nash's idea is to build factories to enable the country to manufacture "secondary" articles...
Against such a background neither Mr. Nash nor his Labor Government was expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew...
...want to stir up any bitter feeling about foreign nations lying to the west of us, but I do say that I would regret to see further aggression on the part of a nation all of whose admirals and generals seem to look precisely like Roy W. Howard...