Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Godkin, born in Ireland, came to America in 1856 with an Irishman's love for democracy and an Irishman's will to secure it. As editor of the "Nation" and the "Evening Post" he maintained a tireless attack upon Tammany and base politics in general. When President Eliot introduced Lord Bryce in 1903, he said, "These lectures upon government and civic duty are in remembrance of a man who gave his life to the public through the medium of the press . . . Mr. Godkin was a man of remarkable vigor and great candor, and unremitting devotion to lofty ideals of public...
...bleak March day three years ago when Franklin Roosevelt stepped up and took the oath of office, he was a national hope. A month later he was a national hero. He had won the heart of a frightened nation by the height at which he held his head, the breadth to which his smile expanded, by self-confidence that seemed almost Olympian. Seldom since then had his self-confidence failed him. It enabled him to propose and get Congress to approve frank experiments. It gave him courage to ask Congress for sums of money that no other peacetime President...
...keener or curate eye has cau football game. His come at the rate of minute. Wherever a phone can be ta high places and throughout the nation has taken it, do glasses, and cast a glance at the doings. events, sports, specta all have been quick for his uninterrupted glossy announcer's technique...
...Hoover's appearance in San Jose superior court challenges the attention of the whole nation, and particularly those who look after other people's money. If the guardians of Stanford's funds are worried by the bogey of inflation, Harvard's trustees should sit up and take notice. For all save the government's hirelings will now admit that serious inflation looms larger than at any time since the administration took the helm...
...publisher was undecided whether he would enter any of the other Presidential primaries besides Ohio and his home state. Knox has consistently opposed the New Deal, although he supported the President's early moves towards a balanced budget. He was one of the original anti-New Dealers to attract nation wide attention as a possible Republican nominee...