Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional patriots have proved the adage that "where the shot hits, there the feathers fly." The potentialities of the movement as an effective satire have been realized. A joke gets known more widely and more rapidly than a philosophy thesis, and as such, the movement has swept the nation's campuses. But it is at this point that the Veterans of Future Wars need a solid foundation under them. That foundation must be utter seriousness, thinly veiled by the humor of the idea, and not vice versa. As an example, a Future War Veteran kept up his front against...
...cease to point our fingers at Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese. We are now spending more money for war preparations than any other nation in he world. Yet no other country needs less defense than does the United States...
...Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski is coming to Symphony Hall on Tuesday evening for a single concert. The program includes four Bach transcriptions by Stokowski himself and three excerpts from Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung". The famous conductor has not been heard here for many years and is now commencing a nation-wide tour...
...actually on. And in this particular war, whether either of them likes it or not, President Conant and Angelo Herudon are enlisted in the same service--along with all the rest of us whose right to speak or publish our undictated opinion has been challenged or abolished. --The Nation...
...reducing rates on a nation-wide basis, has had the laudable purpose of attempting to save the railroads and make them more competitive with other forms of transportation. The railroads, of course, desire exactly the same thing. They agree in principle that the only "out" for them is to reduce rates. However, very reasonably, they desire a compromise rate between the old schedule of 3.6 cents a mile and the proposed slash to 2 cents a mile. The suggested compromise of 2.5 cents a mile is sensible, for too drastic action at this time may deliver the coup de grace...