Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than the Republican and Democratic convention delegates combined-and as many more visitors. If they were genuinely representative, they meant that there were millions of oldsters like them throughout the land, each with a vote, each with 10? per month for Townsend Club dues. On that assumption, the nation's ablest rabble-rousers battled last week for their allegiance...
...back as 1932, he asserted, he had begun writing to Government officials of China, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Russia begging for employment as an aviation instructor. All turned down his services. Last nation he approached was Japan, asking a $50,000 cash advance, a salary as commander in the Japanese Navy. An unidentified Japanese opened negotiations with him, required evidence of his qualifications for the job. From the Navy Department Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked...
...Navy yeoman named Harry Thomas Thompson was tried, convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for selling U. S. Fleet secrets to a Japanese agent (TIME, July 6). Last week the name and face of onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer Farnsworth suddenly appeared on the front pages of the nation's Press when the Department of Justice accused him of betraying Naval secrets to Japan...
...have determined," announced Franklin Delano Roosevelt one day last summer, "that we shall do something for the nation's unemployed Youth." Forthwith the President, by executive order, set up the National Youth Administration, appointed Assistant FERAdministrator Aubrey Williams as director, gave him $50,000,000 to spend on jobless U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25 (TIME, July 8, 1935). Last week the NYA reached its first stocktaking milestone as Director Williams, having spent his $50,000,000, began the allotment of a second appropriation...
That NYA had made any appreciable dent on the problems besetting the nation's 2,500,000 young unemployed did not appear from its first year's record. Resorting to meagre handouts, Director Williams had used most of his appropriation to pay a maximum $8 monthly to 166,000 high-school students, a maximum $15 monthly to 119,000 college students, which they earned by working under the direction of their school authorities, spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school...