Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not Secretary Hull's idea of a refugee committee amounts to much more than a grandiose gesture, its reception last week was magnificent. In the U. S., it was unanimously praised by Jewish welfare groups, the Federal Council of Churches and the nation's press. Abroad it was indicated that prompt official acceptances would be forwarded from Great Britain, France, The Netherlands and Belgium. Meanwhile, before details of the plan had been worked out and before the State Department had explained precisely what the committee would be expected to accomplish, Franklin Roosevelt told a Warm Springs...
After five months spent covering nearly all of Europe, able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief...
...nation whose conduct has recently perturbed us all is a nation of beer drinkers. Beer is a peaceful drink. Beer is the drink for the ordinary, kindly, simple workingman in the street-the man who can be found in millions all over the world. If he could get together with his fellows in other countries over a pint of beer, we should hear much less of dictators and all the other high and mighty political personages that at present bully and bewilder the ordinary man. In these unstable, quarrelsome days. I think I can give you a slogan...
...educators are much concerned with recreation, because what a nation does with its leisure is an index of its character and culture. Five years ago Northwestern University and the Chicago Recreation Commission began a monumental study, costing $250,000 (most of it supplied by WPA), of public and private recreation in Chicago...
...flatly described Mr. Block as a "Hearst stooge." But since 1931 Mr. Block has reduced his holdings to Newark, Pittsburgh and Toledo, says that what he runs he owns. So Mr. Block's grey fringe bristled when Robert S. Allen, sharpshooting Washington columnist, wrote last September in the Nation...