Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There can be no stability or peace either within nations or between nations except under laws and moral standards adhered to by all. International anarchy destroys every foundation for peace. It jeopardizes either the immediate or the future security of every nation, large or small...
...Biggest national event of last week was the dedication of Chicago's new Centennial Bridge (see p. 61). Standing on a platform on the south plaza of the bridge looking down into the faces of as many Chicagoans as could cram the new drive, Dedicator Franklin Roosevelt, homing from the West, tossed his chin in air and cried: "It is because the people of the United States under modern conditions must, for the sake of their own future, give thought to the rest of the world, that I, as the responsible executive head of the nation, have chosen this...
...political support from many whom he had alienated. Besides putting the bothersome question of Justice Hugo Black out of the headlines, he had provided himself with an active-peace issue which promised to remain popular unless it threatened to involve the U. S. in war. Meantime he kept the nation guessing whether his proposed quarantine was to consist of diplomatic pressure, of voluntary boycotts of Japanese goods, or some positive form of economic sanctions...
...There is a solidarity and interdependence about the modern world, both technically and morally, which makes it impossible for any nation completely to isolate itself from economic and political upheavals in the rest of the world, especially when such upheavals appear to be spreading and not declining...
Little time was wasted last week on the ironies of Labor politics in Denver. Keynoting to the delegates and later to the nation in a radio broadcast, President Green swore he would drive the C. I. O. out of existence. "The clock has struck. The hour is here. . . ." he cried. "Our patient, long-suffering, hopeful group of organized workers and their representatives will now change from a position of watchful waiting and earnest appeal to the greatest fighting machine that was ever created within the ranks of Labor...