Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afghanistan, where every shepherd carries a rifle, and boiling in oil is part of the criminal code, is the home of the world's most rugged individualists. But Afghanistan, the nation, is a far more decorous member of the League of Nations than it would have been even five years ago. There are schools in Afghanistan today, and a national university. Credit for its gradual civilization must go to three kings: 1) the chuckleheaded Amanullah, who built racetracks, Roman arches, cinemas, and tried to force his outraged subjects into trousers until they rose up and chased him from...
...with inflation averted, Governor Rooth attacked his third objective-to raise the level of wholesale prices slowly and firmly, without increasing the cost of living. He cared nothing for what foreigners were willing to pay outside for Swedish kronor, except as foreign exchange affected internal prices. No modern nation had ever presumed formally to try to control wholesale prices. Governor Rooth's tools were only the usual central bank's powers to fix the bank rate, to buy gold and deal in foreign exchange...
...show that a libel had been committed and "moral & mental damage" inflicted. In effect, he demanded that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull discipline Washington's Senator Homer T. Bone for speaking carelessly of Argentina's Admiral Ismael Galindez. Protesting "our friendship for that great nation with which we have recently strengthened an old relationship," the Foreign Minister asked for copies of all documents concerning Argentine munitions activities and promised the U. S. any similar documents Argentina finds...
...Profit" was one word the world waited for. He used it early, with matter-of-fact simplicity and without malice. Next sentence: "These governmental and industrial developments hold promise of new achievements for the nation." Business-at-a-profit thus became, at the outset of his speech, not a naughty subject for the Presidential slipper but a respectable object of national hope and solicitude...
...dangerous principle; sectionalism was one of the causes of the South's defeat. Says Author Adams: "The united Confederacy was built upon the quicksand of shifting local loyalties." In 180 pages Adams retells, with balanced impartiality, the story of the Civil War, concludes: "The essence of our national tragedy has been that the section of our new country in which the humane view and way of life developed first should . . . have been forced ... to expend its intellectual energies against the trend of the age, to lose its wealth, and to be left in rum and without its proper...