Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, still enthusiastic, was now able to be of real help. Unfortunately surveys by PWA and the Federal Power Commission rejected the Cooper project as uneconomical. In the summer of 1934, with a new Congress coming up for election and the old saw. "As-Goes-Maine-so-Goes-the-Nation," in many a mind. President Roosevelt wrote Democratic Governor Brann of Maine that the Federal Government would certainly look seriously into the Quoddy project...
With the Tydings bill for Porto Rican independence, the Administration once again gives startling evidence of its "good neighbor" attitude towards Latin America. This latest move is particularly astute since it gains sentimental prestige as the generous act of a great nation towards an aspiring little one; and at the same time it may rid us of the last and most harrassing of the Caribbean hornets...
...have recently learned o the preparations being made by students as Harvard and elsewhere for a nation-wide "anti-war strike." As a Harvard graduate, I should like the use of some of your space to comment upon this matter...
...world which has seen history hinge so often upon the control of the seas and the superiority of one nation's merchant marine over another this comparatively new element through which international commerce is beginning to flow, the air, should have careful consideration. There was a time when Yankee clipper-ships sailed the seas in numbers that were symbols of commercial prestige and potential naval power, but the advent of the steamship found America napping, and today most of our trade is carried on in foreign bottoms. If the United States does not soon establish a definite air-schedule across...
From a strategical standpoint the promotion of an American transatlantic airline as a war-defensive measure is highly desirable. An English historian once remarked, "On the day that Bleriot flew the English Channel England became a continental nation." It might be said with equal truth that the day Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic Ocean, the United States became a European power. Few events in aeronautical history are more strikingly significant than the landing of a whole squadron of Italian planes under the command of General Italo Balbo in the very heart of America at Chicago three years...