Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke up into great modern states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied...
...demand epidemic freedom!" By last week even fuddled urchins helping their big brothers & sisters picket New York City's Board of Education building had thus taken up the academic battle cry of 1935. Since autumn, patrioteers led by the Hearst Press and the American Legion had hounded the nation's schools with unprecedented vehemence. Last week as commencement season let loose torrents of oratory on college campuses, the pedagogs' reply was echoing throughout the land. Within a fortnight commencement speeches by the following university heads had made the following headlines: Johns Hopkins' Ames...
...fact that few other cases of infantile paralysis were detected throughout the nation last week suggested that the incidence of that disease will be low this summer. However, health officers and bacteriologists are keeping close, special watch for outbreaks in New York City and Philadelphia. Those communities are significant because in Philadelphia Dr. John Albert Kolmer and in Manhattan Dr. Maurice Brodie have perfected serums against the virus which causes infantile paralysis (TIME, Nov. 26 et ante). They accomplished their work too late last year to try out their serums against any significant epidemic, are ready for eventualities this summer...
...startled to learn that early U. S. leaders admitted they could visualize no solution, shocked at Du Bois's account of the commercial breeding of slaves that followed the Constitutional end of the slave trade (1808). He holds that the South "turned the most beautiful section of the nation into a centre of poverty and suffering, of drinking, gambling and brawling; an abode of ignorance among black and white more abysmal than in any modern land; and a system of industry so humanly unjust and economically inefficient that if it had not committed suicide in civil war, it would...
NOVEMBER 7 --Curley, Walsh win in Massachusetts as nation voices approval of New Deal...