Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week went news that one of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser's kidnappers had been caught, another identified. Few were the facts which Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation chose to reveal, but they were enough to make the nation cheer for its police, blush for its prisons...
Almost seven score and seven years ago the U. S. with patriarchal dignity named its foremost citizens to the Electoral College, allowed them in their wisdom to choose their leading patriot and biggest landowner, General George Washington, as first President of a new and independent nation. Next autumn the U. S. will launch the Philippine Commonwealth as a new and independent nation in its own image. Last week Filipinos got down to the serious business of electing their first President. The affair promised to be no patriarchal rite...
...have left a well-documented trail of opinions on most subjects, including the Constitution, behind him. Republican editors, like bloodhounds on the scent, soon sniffed out and printed with gleeful gusto a speech he made by radio in 1930 when he was Governor of New York. Broadcasting to the nation Mr. Roosevelt had declared: "It was clear to the framers of our Constitution that . . . any national Administration attempting to make all laws for the whole nation, such as was wholly practical in Great Britain, would inevitably result ... in a dissolution of the Union. ... To bring about Government by oligarchy masquerading...
...proceeded to reorganize it as his new Cabinet on the spot. The sinecure he had held, Lord President of the Council, he bestowed on Scot MacDonald, who is thus assured of ?2,000 ($10,000) per year for the further loan of his prestige. To the nation Lord President of the Council MacDonald soon declared: "I hope the confidence and support given the National combination I headed will be renewed to the same combination under its new Prime Minister...
With the day just breaking, the "Dawn Cabinet," as Paris christened it, trooped from the Elysée Palace and Premier Laval snappily observed to the dog-tired Press: "I have formed a Government of action. I did my duty in forming a Cabinet and I hope the Nation and Parliament will do their duty in supporting...