Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month. When business demanded that the government raise its heavy hand of regulation, the latter responded in two quite rash ways: Assistant Attorney General Jackson, with his political eye cocked at his chief, berated the "business Bourbons"; Secretary Ickes claimed that sixty families controlled the economic destiny of the nation. Labor opened its mouth first when Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., said that most trade union leaders thought the government had gone too far in regulating industry. The U. A. W., an affiliate of the C. I. O., declared that the solution to the present...
Certainly if there is a U. S. Man of 1937 he is John Llewellyn Lewis who made his C.I.O. a primary force in the affairs of the nation, fought two great automobile strikes, unionized the greater part of the U. S. steel industry for the first time in history and in a twelvemonth built a labor organization the equal of the old A. F. of L. in size and power, its superior in leadership. The measure of his achievement is that his two runners-up were his two visa-vis : 1) Chairman Myron Charles Taylor who without a blow being...
Progress, From then until this year's Japanese invasion the material progress of Chiang's China has been phenomenal. He called in Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton to give China the plan for its first sound currency, and the first ever accepted on a nation-wide basis. Roads and busses to run on them were sent stabbing far into China from her ports, and the more busses the fewer bandits. Flood control and famine-fighting agencies which had functioned piecemeal in China were given coordination. In a land which has existed for centuries in a state...
...least half the drivers of the 28,500,000 motor vehicles that crowd U. S. roads are conscientious, careful motorists who in no way contribute to the nation's half-million yearly highway casualties. Being considerate of themselves and others, they represent types most likely to insure against accident. And long have they complained that some way should be found, as in parts of Europe, to compensate them for their safe driving records. Last week the 38 big companies that comprise the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters found the way, announced that all their policy holders carrying...
...last but not least ordinary people are beginning to adorn their homes with original works of art instead of the old atrocities. . . . But the WPA artist who has served the public faithfully on this great Government art program has done so under the constant threat of dismissal. . . . The nation is desperately in need of legislation which will assure the permanency of this culture-legislation which will make American culture a permanent impulse in the nerve centre of its government...