Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justification of the cost of his ammunition the President wrote: "Let us unanimously recognize the fact that the Federal debt, whether it be twenty-five billions or forty billions, can only be paid if the nation obtains a vastly increased citizen income. I repeat that if this citizen income can be raised (from an estimated fifty-six billion this Year) to eighty billion dollars a year the National Government and the overwhelming majority of State and local governments will be 'out of the red.' " And the President added: "Business must help. I am sure business will help...
Thereupon Harris turned to and, almost singlehanded, turned out a first edition of The Beacon. The paper looked enough and sounded enough like The Nation to be its pulp brother. In The Beacon?, columns Sydney Harris got off his chest much about Chicago he had not been able to express during his work for the Chicago dailies...
...Finally produced a full-fledged program intended to defeat Depression. As Franklin Roosevelt explained it to Congress in a special message and to the nation in a "fireside chat." it boiled down to the familiar New Deal story of "pump-priming...
Other red lights along the nation's trackage last week...
Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...