Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Provisional President López Contreras made two shrewd moves to insure his own popularity, quiet the country. He announced that: 1) the Government would buy the nation's entire coffee crop for $7,800,000, trade it abroad for war munitions; 2) an elaborate public works program would be started with paid workers instead of the customary gangs of political prisoners...
...obvious that a college basket-ball team has no more place in a professional sports arena like Madison Square Garden than a Jew in Hitler's bathtub." Despite this caustic comment by the Nation's occasional sportswriter, "Left Wing," 18,000 spectators sardined into Garden seats to watch New York University play Purdue...
...King, being to all appearances convinced that Italo-Ethiopian peace must be made by negotiation and not by surrender if another World War is to be avoided, made himself clear to the Nation this week by according Sir Samuel Hoare an hour's private audience. Such a British honor would have been unthinkable if the King had been shocked or morally revolted as Leagophiles were by "The Deal'' of Hoare & Laval...
...stinking piece of fish indeed lay beneath the sauce. At home and overseas the nation was seized by a conviction that in the behavior of His Majesty's Government there were elements of treachery, cowardice and stupidity. This was an impression created by the building up of layer on layer of popular impressions...
...Palacio in one of the country's innumerable revolutions. They guessed wrong. The successful revolutionists exiled Gomez & Castro. Seven years later another revolution left Cipriano Castro President of Venezuela and General Gomez Vice President and Minister of War. President Castro's vices and extravagances nearly bankrupted the nation. In 1908 when Castro was in Germany attempting to have his liver repaired, General Gomez and his henchmen seized the country...