Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in a way memorable of the events which led to the World War, one European nation abruptly broke diplomatic relations with another, went so far as to shut off inter-nation telephone communication. Foreign correspondents and diplomats gasped. It was an action such as is seldom taken unless war is imminent, and it occurred because a small Czechoslovak factory refused to fill a commercial order for the Government of Portugal. Although Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, who ordered his Minister José da Costa Carneiro to leave Prague is a dictator and therefore unaccountable...
...Soviet Russia, the nation most keenly interested in a victory for the Spanish Left, two years ago contracted ties with Czechoslovakia and might logically have taken a hand in the matter...
Strikes in the nation's silk mills usually raise a far louder racket than the whirring spindles and clattering shuttles which stop because of them. Feuds between employe and employer have almost always been bitter, sometimes bloody. Ever since last May, when energetic little Sidney Hillman, able, Lithuanian-born chief of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving...
...last month the gentlemen of the Department of Justice had combed their wits and the nation, and compiled a list of some 60 men. Further probing into the lives-private and public-of these 60 eliminated two-thirds of them. Last fortnight, with 20 names before him, President Roosevelt started the blue-penciling which would continue until but one name remained: that of the successor to Willis Van Devanter as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...Washington lobbies are more persistent than that which represents the nation's teachers. Mostly public servants, they have plenty of political sophistication and are well aware that few people can resist any sort of appeal in the name of Education. Many a pedagogical eyebrow raised, therefore, when that great politician and school-lover Franklin D. Roosevelt last week gave the education lobby an unexpected tongue lashing...