Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater wrong has been perpetrated against a nation, a government voted for and established by a large majority of the people of Spain. Are we reverting back to times when no country or people are safe from the ambitious covetousness of cruel kings or powerful armies...
...befits the beginning of a sequel, the end of the first scene found the protagonist involved in new difficulties. His final speech, a sober fireside chat appealing to the nation on behalf of his Supreme Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets...
...accompanied by counterprotest against "malicious and untrue" U. S. press comments on Germany. The explanation, as reported in a semi-official communique, was: "If the language of some of the German newspapers went, perhaps, beyond the desired limits, this was due only to irritation. An insult to the American nation was by no means intended." The German press, which had banner-headlined Secretary Hull's "very earnest" regrets in response to the German protest against Mayor LaGuardia's crack week before, ignored both U. S. protest and Nazi explanation. At the same time, however, the press did quit...
...Godkin Lectures, instituted by friends of the founder and editor of "The Nation", Edwin Godkin, have proved ever increasingly successful and a happy inspiration. Always well attended, and presenting men of real eminence in discussions of "the essentials of free government", the lectures hold a unique place in Harvard tradition. Professor Ortega has been a consistent liberal thinker, having been instrumental, through his writing, in King Alfonso's abdication. His lectures will provide a stimulating opportunity for students of the social sciences to compare their predigested theories with the vital ideas of an important European political philosopher...
Questioned on the efficacy of the Johnson Act to prevent American money from going to a defaulting debtor nation, Harris said that in this case the Act merely made it difficult for the French to issue the securities here, and that there was nothing to prevent the American investor from buying French securities in the foreign market just as he could buy francs...