Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called to Washington in 1933 by President Roosevelt, Mr. Wallace became the head of one of the greatest farming experiments in the nation's history. Coming from a long line of dirt-farmers and agriculture economists, Secretary Wallace is the second member of his family to hold the office of Secretary of Agriculture. Proximity to the farmers has given him a desire to see that they are fairly treated by the government and this he has striven...
...Miracle at Verdun, this ghastly irregularity spreads panic and consternation through the high command, has repercussions far outside the war zone on Press, Church and Business. However, unlike Playwright Chlumberg, who tried to fix original responsibility for the conflict, Playwright Shaw never penetrates as high as the nation's statesmen, as deep as the nation's populace. He is willing to concentrate his indignation on the Generals who run the war in such a way that men get killed. What young Mr. Shaw really hates is not War but Death...
...proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into the stomach of the adolescent nation...
During the bottom of Depression, forums sprouted spontaneously throughout the nation. The current issue of School Life, organ of Commissioner Studebaker's Office of Education, reports that more than 1,000 forums are still functioning, concentrated chiefly in the East and Midwest. Favorite discussion topic, said School Life, is International Affairs, with Economic Recovery a close second...
...voice of objection should certainly be raised. But since payment of the five dollar charge for the second semester was clearly pledged by the would-be defaulters, the imputation of skullduggery on the part of the Dudley committee is as absurd as it is false. And unlike a creditor nation, the University is in a position to collect...