Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President met his sharpest critics with his best illustrative technique. "The job of creating a program for the nation's welfare is, in some respects, like the building of a ship. At different points on the coast where I often visit they build great seagoing ships. When one of these ships is under construction and the steel frames have been set in the keel, it is difficult for a person who does not know ships to tell how it will finally look...
...look. That, explained the President, was why he took frequent trips to Hyde Park and the Caribbean. "To get away from the trees, as they say. and to look at the whole woods. . . . Did you ever stop to think that there are, after all, only two positions in the nation that are filled by the vote of all the voters- the President and the Vice President? That makes it particularly necessary for the Vice President and for me to conceive of our duties toward the entire country...
Cringing beneath the refusal of President Conant to grant News heelers an interview during his recent visit to the nation's capital, the Yale daily yesterday printed the following article on page one, and again on page three...
...never give interviews to newspapermen," was the only statement Washington reporters could get from President James Bryant Conant of Harvard when he addressed the Harvard Clubs of Washington in the nation's capital last week. The Harvard president, being pressed by the News hawks, then added, "I don't even give interviews to former Harvard students--there's lots of them, you know...
...Clement Scott is even more convinced that the debacle of civilization is imminent; chronicling the various respects in which the appetite of the nation for blood, violence and horror has been assiduously whetted by the papers, the movies and "Esquire," he concludes in "America Tomorrow," that "the upper-class male" is about ready to attend revivals of gladitorial games, and suggests that "the decline of the American Republic" is thus evident...