Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more startling, though it exploded in the headlines with a far louder pop, was the final pre-convention volley fired at the Democratic army by its embittered Lost Battalion. Ever since he proclaimed to the Liberty League and the nation last January that he might "take a walk" at Philadelphia, observers have been waiting for Al Smith to take his first step. He waited until the day before the convention began and then, with Joseph B. Ely, James A. Reed, Bainbridge Colby and onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan for co-signers, released an open telegram...
...House of Commons did not travel last week far beyond the point at which Stanley Baldwin had stopped with intuitive wisdom. Mourned disgusted Arthur Greenwood for the Labor Party: "During the whole of this debate there has been not a single word of sympathy for a broken nation [Ethiopia], no word of condemnation for the Power [Italy] which deliberately organized the use of poison...
...arch-conservative Sun, about 200,000 below the rowdy Journal. Publisher Howard prefers to measure the World-Telegram's progress in the past five years in terms of public service rather than circulation or profit, points out that the paper has made a place for itself in the nation's largest and most competitive community. This fact few could deny after the World-Telegram, unsupported by any other important metropolitan paper, helped Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia into City Hall in 1934. turning out Tammany for the first time since the old World ousted...
...educational bureau of Fidelity Investment Association in Wheeling, W. Va. observed the nation's commencement season last week by publishing a survey of the prospective earning power of the Class of 1936. As a group, this year's 141,000 college graduates will work 40 years, make $27,000,000,000. Each will earn $194,000, as compared to $88,000 life earnings for high-school graduates, $64,000 for grammar-school graduates...
Congress moved swiftly toward Federal regulation of the nation's stockmarkets, handing the President the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 a few months after he asked for it. Largely because grain markets were already regulated to some extent, the commodity measure was put off until 1935, then until 1936. Last week President Roosevelt finally squiggled his name to a series of amendments converting the old Grain Futures Act into the Commodity Exchange Act. It was supposed to do for commodity markets what the Securities Exchange Act had done for stockmarkets. Actually, it did no such thing...