Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped at Chattanooga, the President quit work on his speech, went out to the rear platform. "I don't have to tell you," he declared to the station crowd, "of my interest in this State and in this section of this State, because in the Tennessee Valley the nation as a whole is conducting-I hate to call it an experiment because it has got beyond that stage -but it is conducting a great humanitarian work which because of"-the train began to move-"its already proven success is going to mean much for the country in the days...
...bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil of its God-given fertility, deprived their sons and daughters of a decent opportunity on the farm. To those days, I trust, the organized power of the nation has put an end forever...
...city people against the farmer and the farm program. It is that type of political profiteer who seeks to discredit the vote in favor of a continued corn-hog program by comparing your desire for a fair price for the farmer to the appetite of hogs for corn. . . . "The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to deal swiftly with kidnappers, gangsters and racketeers. That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to save innocent victims from wildcat banking, from watered stocks and from all other kinds of 'confidence games.' That...
...past fiscal year taken in $411,000,000 in liquor taxes. The States had collected many millions more. Consumption was only 70% of the 1917 level, and while 324 cities reported 23,683 arrests for drunken driving last year, the total was below the 1928-31 average. That the nation definitely had its back turned on Prohibition sentiment was evident at the 28th annual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of America in St. Louis, at which nothing was new but the songs. William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson deplored the sale of 3.2% beer. Bishop James Cannon Jr. was named...
After a picture in Hollywood Lanny realized he needed a season in summer stock . . . he's had it and he may be induced to go back to cameras . . . In the meantime on his State Fair and Shou boat programs he remains Sir Lancelot to the nation's girls who play Lady of Shaiott to him by their loudspeakers...