Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Technically, the distinction of being the first man to earn the nation's highest award for valor goes to Frederick W. Gerber, Sergeant Major of Engineers from 1839 to 1871, who was cited "for distinguished gallantry in many actions . . . covering a period of 32 years." However, the decoration did not exist before 1862. -ED.] These awards were to be issued for acts, "above and beyond duty," and I have no doubt that many were well-merited. However it must have been quite a shock to the 30 who escorted President Lincoln's remains to have been decorated...
...after any hungry nation makes a grab for the 7,083 islands that will then be the free and independent Philippine Republic, she will find her hands full. Whipping through the water at 60 m. p. h. and spraying torpedoes right & left will be 100 tiny Philippine defense boats. Backing them up will be 250 airplanes. On land will wait a well-trained standing army, 400,000 trained reserves. If the greedy nation is in earnest, she will need 500,000 men, $10,000,000,000 and three years to swallow the islands...
...blow year in, year out across the vast grassy plain that is Texas, have for 13 years been murmuring to the bones of Texas' dead heroes that when this great state, a land of great men who will ever do great things, should become 100 years old, the nation would be treated to a memorial celebration that it would not soon forget. True to that promise, up and down the nation for weeks, with a white horse called Texas and his son Jim Boy, 6, the present Governor of Texas, "Jaunty Jimmy" Allred has been traveling as advance agent...
Simultaneously, the railroads' greatest competitor voluntarily reduced its rates to new lows. Through the National Association of Motor Bus Operators, all the major Eastern bus lines announced they would at once cut their fares below the railroad's basic 2? a mile. Old bus fares were about 2? a mile. The new schedule ranges from 1.25? to 1.75?. In addition, the busses will retain their present 10% reduction for round-trip tickets-a privilege the railroads are abandoning. Under the new fares, a salesman scurrying about the nation by bus will pay $3 instead of $3.50 to ride...
...colleges spread themselves this year to salute with honorary degrees the wise, the rich and the merely acquiescent, the nation's oldest and most famed university last week plumped squarely for the wise. To Cambridge, Mass, for the culmination- of its 300th anniversary celebration in September, Harvard invited 66 top-flight pundits, so carefully hand-picked by President James Bryant Conant and his faculty that they furnished an international Who's Who of scholarship...