Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maine went Democratic. So did the nation. Secretary Ickes put Engineer Cooper on a special survey committee. Its report was favorable. Before long Army Engineers found themselves standing on the brink of Cobscook Bay with $10,000,000 of relief cash in prospect and White House orders to start Quoddy Dam. To save international complications the project had been cut in half and confined entirely to U. S. waters. Even so. its estimated cost was $36,000,000. Five dams had to be built between the islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep...
Unvisited by Capitol sightseers, there lies beneath the marble chambers where Senators & Representatives make the nation's laws, a musty rabbit warren of empty rooms, dark corners, labyrinthine corridors. Into these one cold night last winter crept a hungry, jobless Negro named Fulton Augustus Bond, out on bail after an arrest for vagrancy. A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman. Capitol police, drawn largely from the job-hungry following of Congressmen, bothered him not at all. Many of them attend Washington's law schools. No detectives, most of them...
When AAA went by the board last January, President Roosevelt whipped through a befuddled Congress a stopgap measure called the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (TIME, March 9). The prime purpose of that law was to restore the flow of cash benefits from Washington to the nation's farmers which the Supreme Court decision had rudely interrupted. Yet the Soil Conservation Act compelled no farmer to do anything about limiting his production. If he shifted cash crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with...
...German Government in Realmleader Hitler's proposals, Editor Grey felt, had been "full of peace and good will towards men" and, despite the fact that it is "at least an equal of any nation represented and definitely the superior of all but one [Britain]," it had been put into "the position of the prisoner in the dock facing a hostile jury...
...celebrated classroom caitiff like Peck's Bad Boy or Huckleberry Finn were to cut his swath through a U. S. school today, he would probably get off with a restrained scolding. In most of the nation's schools, use of the corrective rod is prohibited by law. New York City. Chicago, Wilmington and Washington forbid all forms of corporal punishment in their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans...