Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditures $6,869,000,000. Result: a 1939 net deficit of $950,000,000. On the outgo side the President tentatively set down Defense at just under a billion, Relief at just over a billion, then added: "Due to world conditions over which this Nation has no control, I may find it necessary to request additional appropriations for national defense. Furthermore, the economic situation may not improve-and if it does not, I expect the approval of Congress and the public for additional appropriations if they become necessary to save thousands of American families from dire need." Thus...
After Mayor Hague's great rally, Lawyer Ernst broadcast a rebuttal in which; referring to his Committee for Defense of Civil Liberties in Jersey City, he announced: "I represent those great Communist leaders of the nation, General Hugh Johnson, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann...
...that a war referendum would probably bring a vote for war. Possibly such would be the outcome; but who can be more surely depended upon to keep us out of war than the mass of the voters? Still, as in 1917, they are the most pacific group in the nation after months of interventionist propaganda. Can we rely on the President after his disregard of the neutrality laws, after his Chicago speech, after the tone of his representations to Japan in the "Panay" incident? Or can we rely on the Diplomatic Service, as notoriously Anglophile as the intellectuals...
...revealed the surprising number of people who believe that nothing should be done to hinder American participation in an overseas war, and it has shown the popularity of the strange belief that "a revitalized American foreign policy" for peace (to quote from your editorial) needs the sanction of a nation ready to go to war at the drop of a hat. Robert S. Brainerd...
...months ago, seems to be satisfactory in that it points to a practical means of attaining Mrs. Nieman's idealistic end, a higher standard of journalism. But taken by themselves, fellowships amounting to $40,000 a year can scarcely affect the standing of the great mass of the nation's periodicals. It is hoped, therefore, that such a program will at least lead the way in the fight for better and cleaner journalism...