Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better equipped to deal with strikes if he had a revamped Supreme Court. How much, asked Mr. Lippmann, had Mr. Roosevelt done about two serious shipping strikes? And a political critic, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, declaring to the Senate that "there is nothing of greater importance to the nation at the present time," intimated that it was high time the President took action about the Sit-Down epidemic...
...debate at the hearing... the repealists and the opponents, because of opposite beliefs, went off the course of orderly discussion, may I, for one, hold out the hand of fellowship in a sincere endeavor to work in harmony for a more mutual understanding of the greater problems facing our nation which require a solidity of thought and action...
From the snowy wastes of Northern China came missionary reports last week that Mongol hordes have now established a. new Japan-controlled autonomous nation in Chahar Province "similar to Japan's puppet-state of Manchukuo," are calling it "Mongokuo." This territory, wedged between Manchukuo and Suiyan Province, is roughly the size of Ohio, has its capital at Chap Ser. Another slice of China has thus nearly if not quite been added to the Japanese Empire...
...spending was only one facet of the Eccles financial philosophy. To apply to public policy the common economic virtues of private life, he has often declared, is to invite disaster. When the nation's individuals are assiduously practicing thrift, economy and budget-balancing, that is precisely the time for the Government to go into debt for compensatory public spending. Of course, this was the underlying fiscal philosophy of the whole New Deal, and Mr. Eccles came to be rated the arch-apologist of spending. Last week Mr. Eccles suddenly reversed his economic field, to the shocked surprise...
...still am an advocate of an easy money policy and expect to continue to be an advocate of such a policy so long as there are large numbers of people who are unable to find employment in private industry, which means that the full productive capacity of the nation is not being utilized...