Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests of the Midday Luncheon Club assembled in a high-school auditorium for a special treat. On the platform, a handsome lectern bore a large portrait of Lincoln. Out to the speakers' seats marched Governor Horner, Secretary Ickes, Governor Talmadge, a spectacle which awed the audience and the nation...
...loud and significant cheers a speech by former Civil Lord of the Admiralty George Lambert in which this mild-mannered Liberal M. P. urged His Majesty's Government to "adopt a two-power air standard-a British Royal Air Force twice as strong as that of any other nation! . . . The League of Nations has failed, and we must rely on our own strong right arm. . . . There is more loot in London than in Addis Ababa, and I prefer that London should not be at the mercy of any Dictator!" Only Comrade William Gallacher, the House...
...Fatherland. It was a proud page in the history of the Swiss and for the Germans living in Switzerland that no German and no Swiss could be found to do this deed. The instigator himself had to do it-the Jew! "You, Wilhelm Gustloff, enter the ranks of our nation's immortal martyrs!" concluded Adolf Hitler. "Gustloff will be the patron saint of all Germans living abroad. . . . We do not choose murderous methods! I must proudly state that our movement has never murdered and has never attacked anyone...
...Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik Bukharin. Promptly Editor Bukharin abjectly crawled, withdrew editorially everything he had said...
...March issue of "The American Mercury" announces that Leavitt Howard '36, of Hingham, Massachusetts has received Honorable Mention in "The Mercury's" $500 prize essay contest, in which undergraduates throughout the nation were asked to submit their ideas on the present state of the Union. The winning essay was written by Francis Cave, an undergraduate at the University of Maryland...