Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mentioning specifically the legal profession, in which he stated "there is no selective process at work," Conant declared, "Quite apart from economic considerations, the existence of any large number of highly educated individuals is unhealthy for any nation...
...year 1784 brought Kiyonaga who started a new trend in interpreting reality, who made real people and gave the sensation of real life, and about the same time comes Utamaro, the finest colorist of his nation...
Last week Alton, Ill., famed as the home of Giant Robert Wadlow, was publicized as the theatre of operations of a latter-day Carry Nation, a Mrs. Irene Kite, 32. Last December Mrs. Kite got an ax, went to seven taverns in Alton & environs, grimly reduced their slot machines to broken metal. Last fortnight, with her ax she demolished two more-as she called them-"one-armed bandits.'' Charged with malicious destruction of property, Mrs. Kite was arrested, jailed because she declined to sign a bond...
Much as U. S. ministers approved of Carry Nation's activities two generations ago, the Ministerial Association of Alton backed up Mrs. Kite last week. Its 16 members announced that they "endorsed and appreciated" her accomplishments, declaring: "We note that this lady with the ax is to be prosecuted. . . . We wonder at the sudden zeal of the officials...
...Father of Super Highways in Congress is J. Buell Snyder of Pennsylvania, who two years ago wrote a bill proposing "main streets across the nation" and re-introduced the measure fortnight ago. His was the only super-highway scheme reduced to map form (see map) and consequently the one on which argument focused last week. It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes. Representative Snyder's scheme would put approximately 1,600,000 men directly...