Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday afternoon, Aug. 23, at 2 p. m. off Point Loma. there will be a review of the U. S. fleet. 90 warships and 400 planes. Admiral J. M. Reeves, commander in chief, has designated this combined fleet and air review in honor of the school children of the nation...
...President Hoover had shipped the Bonus Army of 1932 off to pleasant camps to play, putter and carouse at Government expense, the nation's Press would almost certainly have been more indignant than it was at his action in driving the luckless veterans out of Washington with tear gas and bayonets. If the conscientious New York Times had not last fortnight dispatched a man to investigate and report, the quiet but costly fashion in which President Roosevelt dissipated the threat of another Bonus Army would probably have escaped ail public notice...
...These are the people who during the night heroically smear window panes, who placard every German buying from a Jewish store as a traitor to the nation, who declare every Freemason a scoundrel and who, in the justified battle against political pastors and chaplains, are now no longer able to distinguish between religion and the misuse of the pulpit...
...public alarms would not be so easily stilled, even by the No. 1 guardian of the nation's health. Last week, Mississippi's Representative John Elliott Rankin, father of a 12-year-old girl, got up in the House to voice the fears & thoughts of parents: "I am calling upon the Public Health Service to call off the jamboree. I, for one, can't sit here silently and see thousands of boys come here and maybe scatter this dread disease all over the world...
Last week California glared out again in the news as the favorite stamping ground of obscure young scientists who bemuse the nation by bringing "dead" animals back to life. Of all places in the world, Hollywood seemed the ideal spot for the spectacular experiments conducted for the past fortnight by young Dr. Ralph Stanley Willard...