Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second term as President, only five had been reinaugurated as Vice President.-More unusual, Jack Garner became the first Vice President to take his oath of office on the same platform as the President instead of separately in the Senate chamber. Unique, he was chief officer of the nation for the minute or two that passed before the main drama of the occasion was enacted by Franklin Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes. This act was a dramatization of the Constitutional issue which troubled the campaign of 1936 and still burns. Standing up and removing his skull cap from his damp...
...Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address, an address which presented no program, no plans but the activating sentiment of the New Deal. The rain beat a tattoo in the microphones and twice the President wiped the water from his face as he unfolded his burden: "In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens-a substantial part of its whole population-who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. "I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meagre that...
Research will play an important part in the program. Liberal appropriations will be made and heavy teaching loads will be avoided, so that the faculty may promote the well-being of the nation by the results of their research into the difficult and complicated problems of public administration, it was explained...
...half to herself. She turned a few pages, as she was tired of the one she had been on, and went on reading: "Hugh Capet in 987 A.D. founded the royal house of France and began the line of kings who were to unite that country into a great nation. The secret of Capetian success was the fact that for hundreds of years the royal line never failed to bring forth a ruler. Every king was able to propagate his kind...
...effort, however, was worth it since large numbers of men are reported to flash the hash whenever they see the word "spinach," whereas the "Spanish" only causes the readers of the "Nation" any gastronomic trouble...