Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swarthy peons, white-suited coffee planters and their families swarmed into San Salvador one day last week to celebrate Independence Day, 116th anniversary of the little nation's liberation from Spain. Crowning the day's ceremonies was the bestowal by the Chamber of Deputies on the curly head of El Salvador's Dictator, President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the high-sounding title, "Benefactor of the Nation...
Last week in the Assembly, Salvadorians fervently unveiled an engraved plate bearing the new financial doctrine of the little nation. It was an excerpt from Martínez' last speech to Congress: "I propose as the keystone of the nation's policy that it never contract a new loan...
...than he wants, and buying "only the best of its kind whether we like it personally or not." By this standard Founder Libbey began and Mr. Godwin has continued to amass one of the best- balanced collections of art in the U. S. now ranking perhaps fifth among the nation's museums...
...good or ill one of every 100 U. S. citizens is in college or university this fall. Never before in any nation on earth have so many (1,250,000) students and pseudo-students tried to climb the peaks of education. Big, bustling University of Minnesota in Minneapolis is sharing in the boom. Last week the small, silver-haired dean of its College of Science, Literature & the Arts, John Black Johnston, 68, prepared to retire, and as he did so lugubriously doomed one in every two of its students to drown in the sea of education...
Forger or not, old Thomas Wise had done England more good than harm. His 7,000-volume library, whose catalog alone fills eleven large quartos, was offered to the nation at a price considerably less than its assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition...