Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sept. 80--President Roosevelt will confer with representatives of capital and labor next month in an effort to establish a trial period of industrial peace, he disclosed tonight in a vigorously worded message to the nation...
...more than a day Hauptmann was sequestered in a downtown police station while an airtight case was built against him. When newshawks smelled a story, police officials let the most sensational development in the nation's greatest criminal case burst over every front page...
Italy's War Minister was busy last week. Less than a month ago Benito Mussolini straddled a tank in an open field and shouted to his officers: "We must become a military nation, even a militaristic nation, even a warlike nation" (TIME, Sept...
...radio college" could claim Irene Beasley who at the National Electrical & Radio Exposition in Manhattan last week was crowned Queen of Radio for 1934. As a child in Whitehaven. Tenn., she used to play the bass while her 85-year-old grandmother played the treble. When she grew to a gangling 5 ft., 10 in., she started vocal lessons, hoped only to cultivate poise. But singing obsessed her even when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract...
...early-morning darkness on a lonely New Jersey road President George D. Strohmeyer of Child's Restaurants ("The Nation's Host") focused his eyes on a roadside sign: Maridell Inn. Restaurateur Strohmeyer and two companions made their way to the sign, yanked it down, drove on in high spirits. On a street corner in Spring Lake a patrolman found them few minutes later gazing happily at a bonfire blazing from the splinters of the sign. For their prank Funster Strohmeyer & friends divided a fine of $75 and $19.50 costs...