Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transfer of British Colonies was presented to the House of Commons by a group of Conservatives. It declared "that this house vigorously opposes the transfer into any other hands of British Colonies or British Mandated Territories, for the welfare, protection and enlightened government of whose peoples the British nation holds an honorable and inalienable trust...
President Conant chose to make an issue of this gift, refusing it as ostentatiously as it had been proffered, and seizing the opportunity to take a crack at the government of a great nation. Probably, except to the student who missed out on the year in Germany, the opportunity to prove Harvard's militant liberalism was worth a thousand dollars...
...graduates to whom the letter was to be sent. Though presumably caused by a mere clerical oversight, the incident was a perfect example of how not to treat a publicity-seeking politician, especially when he happens to be "so closely associated with the leadership" of a great and proud nation...
William M. McGovern, lecturer on Government, who will do the work originally assigned to Max Lerner, who was granted a leave of absence to become an editor of the Nation Magazine...
This week the count of the nation's tabloid daily newspapers reached 25 when Publisher E. (for Elias) Manchester Boddy changed the name of his Los Angeles Post-Record to Evening News, converted it into a companion for his morning tabloid Illustrated Daily News. Hitherto outstanding event in the Post-Record's, erratic history was an astonishing editorial switch which it made in 1932. Founded by a Labor group in 1895, the Record was bought by the late great Edward Wyllis ("Old Man") Scripps, taken over by his estranged son James, became one of the chain which James...