Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on to say: 'My great ambition on Jan. 20, 1941, is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor, whoever he may be, with the assurance that I am at the same time turning over to him as President, a nation intact. ... I want to get the nation as far along the road of progress as I can. I do not want to leave it to my successor in the condition in which Buchanan left it to Lincoln...
...Soon thereafter the nation was told by a judicial Pronunciamento that although the Federal Government had thus been rendered powerless to touch the problem of hours and wages, the States were equally helpless; and that it pleased the 'personal economic predilections' of a majority of the Court that we live in a nation where there is no legal power anywhere to deal with its most difficult practical problems-a no man's land of final futility...
...fight of 1919. For those oldsters, isolation means that the U. S. shall not only mind its own business, but shall also stand up for its rights. To them, the Pittman proposal seemed a craven yielding up of the great right of freedom of the seas, for which the nation had stood through all its history. Furthermore, they declaimed, it would not bring peace, but war. Since only two nations have navies big enough to do a cash & carry business with the U. S., this nation would inevitably become an ally of Great Britain in the Atlantic, Japan...
...case Russia is attacked by the "alliance of Capitalist powers" her propagandists talk about, to abandon Leningrad, Moscow and the whole portion of the Soviet Union which just now forms Mr. & Mrs. Davies' world and "retreat behind the Urals." That would be the most tragic expedient the Russian nation has adopted since it "saved" Moscow by burning it down around Napoleon...
...city of shining hills and seagirt promontories, the nation's most spectacular publisher last week celebrated the birth of his business. It was 50 years since William Randolph Hearst was given the San Francisco Examiner by his father, rich old Senator George Hearst. To mark the anniversary, the first publishing property of the Hearst enterprises ran off a 134-page edition of 306,000 copies. One of its most striking features was a letter, written by "Will" Hearst, 24 and recently rusticated from Harvard, to tell his father what he would do if he had the Examiner to play...