Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that such mawkish sentimentality and lack of knowledge as expressed in this editorial comment is of any value to the nation. These Negroes are of a type that are better off "never born." They stand as "nuisance criminals or feeble-minded paupers in the body-politic...
...Ethiopia after announcing plans for Italy's Glorification and the Re-creation of the Roman Empire. Peace might have been preserved under England's leadership had the U. S. aided with its good offices. However, lack of diplomatic leadership and no strong foreign policy forced the American nation to repudiate its pet treaty-the Briand-Kellogg Pact-and weakly cite the League of Nations which the U. S. had never recognized...
Certainly we can hope for no higher rating than a funky nation after announcing that we would be ". . . loath to believe that, either of them would resort to other than pacific means as a method of dealing with this controversy. . . ." then advising our citizens in Ethiopia to leave that country...
Certainly our country can ill-afford to have foreign nations involved in a war, especially a conflict which with little provocation might develop into another international struggle with disrupting and demoralizing effects to our commerce. There are those who would have us believe the U. S. to be a self-sufficient nation. On the contrary, intelligent persons know that to be prosperous our merchants, manufacturers and growers must export at least 10% of their products. In turn, we must import rubber, spices, alloy minerals, yute and countless necessities of which we produce little or none within our 48 States...
Among the enumerated powers of the Federal Government is control of the nation's currency. This power was lodged by the Constitution in the hands of Congress. In late years it has tended to gravitate toward the Senate and its potent Banking & Currency Committee. Thus theoretically Chairman Duncan Upshaw Fletcher of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee has more power over the country's monetary policies than any other man in the U. S. Actually the aging gentleman from Florida has very little to say about it. He makes a conscientious effort to follow the devious convolutions...