Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lakehurst, if successful, will make air history. For it marks the first hesitant step of a process that air-minded men dream of--the establishment of a regular transatlantic airline. The great dirigible should not be greeted as just one more example of the insolence of an overweening nation, but as the medium through which progress takes another step forward...
...tiered ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel one night last week, some 3,000 fingers, which are normally on the nation's pulse the rest of the year, were curled amiably around tall glasses. Their 600 owners, members of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, were in town for their annual convention...
...publishers' backs. Fortnight ago he entertained junketing members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the White House. There was exciting, off-the-record talks by Harry Hopkins and John Edgar Hoover and, when his turn came, the President told his charmed audience that he wished the nation's news could be presented without "color."* And by "color" Mr. Roosevelt clearly meant the frank unfriendliness to be found in the writings of the three journalisits who have earned his personal displeasure...
Last week 37-year-old President Hutchins returned to Yale to lecture his alma mater on what ought to be done about U. S. higher education. In four addresses given under the Storrs Lectures foundation he declared that the nation's universities are not "coherent." They must be "strong enough and clear enough to stand firm and show our people what the higher learning is." Faculty members more interested in research than in teaching, he said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins...
...Onto a platform at Philadelphia's Temple University climbed Oswald Garrison Villard, oldtime editor of the Nation, to deliver a ringing peace message. Into the meeting charged a flying wedge of unsympathetic Temple athletes who pelted the demonstrators with lemons and vegetables, triumphantly upset the speakers' platform...