Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which reveres both the Mason-Dixon and the color lines: "Was it not the Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull of Tennessee. . . . Mrs. Earle . . . a daughter of the Blue Grass State of Kentucky...
...subject to SEC approval, to be offered to the public by William J. Mericka & Co. this week. Publisher Griffith-Grey -who enlarged his name in 1915 to avoid being confused with his famed brother, for whom he used to distribute pictures like Broken Blossoms, Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation-determined 18 months ago to get out Cinema Arts. Last autumn he startled the magazine world with the biggest dummy ever seen in the U. S., a book 14 by 17 in., of which 12,000 copies were distributed in the U. S. and England. Despite enthusiastic response from advertisers...
...labor question ... is the outstanding problem in today's industrial life" declared Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace in a farewell address to the members of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been...
...This rash and foolish plan [is] a real danger to the established neutrality policy of this nation. The unfortunate war victims . . . might easily be used for propaganda purposes by groups actively seeking sympathy for the Communist-Socialist regime of the Madrid-Valencia government. This crafty scheme is clearly an attempt to becloud an issue the truth of which Americans are at last learning, namely, that the Soviet-supported 'Loyalist' regime, in order to deceive the world of its real anti-Christian objective, is trying to make out that Franco's government is anti-Catholic because the Rebels...
...reign of Congress is now so sweeping that the Republic, in matters of industry, perhaps of agriculture, has become an integrated nation. Or possibly it should be said that, if these pronouncements do not in themselves create such a new society, others will presently do so, for the same process of reasoning, and the same spirit of accommodation to events, that have extended the meaning of the Constitution to this point can easily push it into new fields." The Federal Government has already assumed responsibilities undreamed of a few generations ago: "It gives financial relief to millions of unfortunates...