Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hours later Berlin was bedlam. Boulevards were pack-jammed with people shouting and sobbing. Several correspondents, defeated by the job of trying to describe a nation mad with joy, cabled that Germany's transports of exultation were "INDESCRIBABLE...
...Greek peninsula. For the rest of the 19th Century the Greeks acquired a shameful record of defeat in battle. They acquired more territory only through the benevolence of the Great Powers, chiefly Britain. Then green currants from the Ionian Islands were the main economic support of the dismal little nation...
Greece had improved its economic situation (tobacco, wine, textiles, leather goods) but it was still "the poorest nation in Europe.'' Partial cause of this was the unprecedented importation of 1,400,000 indigent Greeks from Turkey and Bulgaria in exchange for deported Turks and Bulgars. Without Venizelos, Greece entered a typical Balkan shambles of dictatorships and coups d'état, with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally...
...schoolmate James Bell in Tobacco Road. Between acts he stepped into a restaurant to buy cigarets. The master of ceremonies took one look at him, signaled the orchestra for a fanfare, announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us tonight one of the greatest celebrities of the nation, the Honorable James A. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States." Resorting to a defense which he perfected to rebuff friends of Mr. Farley who hail him in hotel lobbies as "Jim," Mayor Smith quickly lighted a cigaret. But the crowd, unaware that Mr. Farley does not smoke, craned necks, goggled, clapped...
...Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce was not one to sit back and watch Pan American's big show go on without doing anything. Last year the onetime West Point footballer was charged by Congress with providing safety for U. S. airways not only within the Nation's borders but beyond them. Out he went to Oakland, Calif., surrounded himself with technical experts, chartered TWA's original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas is a skin-stressed...