Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin Roosevelt's personal appeal, but his methods and policies. His obvious job was to persuade the nation to look upon his works as statesmanlike achievements...
...Under new conditions, the American people as a whole nation, the original thirteen States and all the West and South that has grown out of them, is on a mental migration, dissatisfied with old conditions, seeking like the little band that came to Marietta, to create new conditions-of security...
...Deal, flatly said: "I have no doubt that Governor Chandler would make a good Senator from Kentucky-but I think he would be the first to acknowledge that, as a very junior member of the Senate, it would take him many, many years to match the national knowledge, the experience and the acknowledged leadership ... of that son of Kentucky of whom the whole nation is proud, Alben Barkley...
...conviction," he said, "that the South presents right now the nation's No. 1 economic problem-the nation's problem, not merely the South...
...week's end the teachers had watched a host of speakers shake scolding fingers at foreign dictatorships, had heard themselves nominated for the job of immunizing the nation against emotional propaganda. Thereupon the delegates adopted a resolution urging the President and Congress to "work intelligently, cooperatively and unselfishly for world peace...