Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus doubly bullied by the world's most powerful fleet and most plausible statesmen, Big Bully Benito Mussolini raged in Rome: "We find it monstrous that the nation which dominates the world refuses us a small bit of land under the African sun! Many times I have given Britain assurance that her interests in Ethiopia would be scrupulously respected. Her attitude, I repeat, is monstrous! The real reasons why Britain so strongly opposes Italy she does not mention...
Renouncer Renounces. At The Hague, as war clouds gathered, the World Court announced the resignation from its bench this week of ailing Judge Frank Billings ("Nervous Nellie") Kellogg who was U. S. Secretary of State when he and the late great Aristide Briand persuaded virtually every nation in the world to underwrite their Peace Pact renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
While the Nation was digesting this, German pedagogs confided to foreign correspondents, under promise not to be quoted by name, their grave doubts as to the future of that pedantic, elephantine form of learning which has always proudly called itself German Scholarship with a capital S. The only way to produce such Scholars, the savants moaned last week, is to keep German schoolchildren grinding at their lessons six days out of every week and to hound them so vigorously that suicides just before examination time have long been a German academic commonplace...
Last week in New York City whence rises many a cry of discontent which subsequently roars over the nation, 1,000 discontented internes who constitute the Interne Council of Greater New York commenced to ululate. Cried President Leon Gray Berman...
Glistening like huge soap bubbles in the sunshine, 13 gas bags from seven nations drifted up from Warsaw one afternoon last week in the 23rd annual International Gordon Bennett Balloon Race. Last away was Polonia of Poland, winning nation in 1933 and 1934. Wise in the ways of local air currents, the Polish pilots shot far higher than the visiting contestants, soon found a strong easterly breeze. Next day, over the Russian border, a squadron of Soviet airplanes swooped down upon them, fired warning salvos for 40 minutes. Stanchly, the Poles refused to land. Onward, for two days more, they...