Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Nye, brown-haired and youthful-looking, sitting as chairman at the centre of the Committee table with his pointed chin thrust out, looked as if he were oppressed by the knowledge that the eyes of the nation were on him. At his elbow, equally intent, sat the Committee's counsel, bushy-browed Stephen Raushenbush, who had conscientiously sifted thousands & thousands of documents in preparation for the hearing. Senator Vandenburg smoked a cigar, tried to look urbane. Senator Clark, with round pink face and snapping eyes, sat waiting to ask sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders...
That a practically bankrupt nation should cmbark on a great imperialistic adventure was remarkable. That Italy, laboring under the stress of badly disarranged conditions within and effective financial sanctions without, has-managed to live on its nerves for such a long time, is even more remarkable. However astonishing, the course of events is, nevertheless, explicable, first by political necessity and later by that phenomenon known as war fever. But now that the little fat that Italy had is gone, and now that there can be no buoying military success, the largely unseen currents of public opinion may soon well...
...Lerner, Lecturer on Government in Government 22b and 29b, was officially voted a leave of absence from February on, according to a University news release yesterday. Reports two days ago said Lerner had resigned to take the editorship of The Nation. The Corporation also announced the appointment of five research follows and fifteen assistants in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...line with favorable feeling throughout the nation, five out of eight Eastern colleges have gone on record for government old-age pensions in the New York Herald Tribune's current poll. 60-65 was the eligibility age most commonly...
...percent of the nation in favor of pension voted $40 and $60 a month for single persons and couples. In the colleges the average figures were...