Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final analysis, what nation wields the greatest power in the control of the Suez Canal...
During the Washington workout, the Champion's seconds made only one blunder, but it was an incredibly stupid one. At a Presidential press conference, it was made known that Mr. Roosevelt had broadcast an appeal to the nation's parsons asking for "counsel and advice," especially on "the new social security legislation just enacted." The replies were not expected before the President's return from "a short vacation." But in many a city many a preacher made public his reply even before the Presidential vacation began, and not all replies were characterized by pastoral calm. Most peppery...
...Commented Secretary of Commerce Roper himself a cotton grower: ''How would we determine the amount of cotton a nation might have from us? Would we be governed by the average exports to that nation over a five-year period, or limit the amount to actual spindle requirements...
...thronged beneath the great single trainshed of St. Louis' huge old Union Station as some 135,000 American Legionaries and their families swept into the city last week for their 17th annual convention. Physically still prime electorally as potent as Labor or the Farmers these veterans of the nation's most ambitious War lustily applied themselves to tour full days of pranks, parades, politics. Time & Place. An activity which jumped the official gun was the scramble by four big U. S. cities for next year's convention site. At stake were civic prestige, acres of publicity...
...Oklahoma law school was the end for Pinky. The tune that was bothering him the day be received his release was something about the object of his affection. Pinky put it on paper, and soon sorority girls the nation over were playing it again and again on the victrola they hadn't used since the radio came...