Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melodramatic year 1933, spindly Alvin Karpis joined forces in St. Paul with Kate ("Ma") Barker and her sons Fred and Arthur. In little more than a year the Karpis-Barker gang became the nation's most formidable criminal outfit, made nearly $500,000 by robbing banks, kidnapping such folk as St. Paul's Brewer William Hamm and Banker Edward George Bremer. Then police and G-Men began weeding the gang out. "Ma" and Fred Barker and another mobster died un der Federal guns. Six other Barker-Karpis hoodlums and accomplices were put behind bars, seven more were under...
With good reason, Arabs are afraid that Jews will take Palestine away from them. Britain's mandate over Palestine guarantees Jews the right to immigrate, indefinitely. In 13 years moneyed Jews have turned Palestine from a dead land of herders to a hustling, well-irrigated, industrial nation with a $31,000,000 Government surplus, an important business in oranges and a good supply of cheap Arab labor. Britain's mandate is also supposed to protect Arab rights, but two years ago young Arabs took matters into their own hands, organized terrorist gangs, began robbing and killing Jews. Fortnight...
...hrer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon the years that lie behind us. ... Our miraculous resurrection fills me with deep gratitude toward all those who, by their faithful cooperation, have made possible my successful leadership of the nation. ... By reason of this revitalization of our national strength I feel we shall better be able to preserve for our people and possibly also for others that peace upon which so much happiness and prosperity depend...
...Imperial Iranian Foreign Office, the U. S. is not an important nation. Iran's best diplomats are sent to Moscow, Afghanistan and Britain. Until he was suddenly elevated to the post of chargé d'affaires, M. Hossein Ghods was a diffident, nervous little man who tiptoed about the Legation in Washington, and whose chief cross was the fact that his Minister's British wife did not like him, made him use the servants' entrance...
Boasts the nation's youngest evangelist: "I preach the best sermon you ever heard...