Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Louisiana treated the nation to a Legislative spectacle the like of which oldsters had not seen since carpetbag days. As usual, at the centre of the spectacle, was Huey Pierce Long, waving his arms, shouting, swearing, sweating?and giving orders which few Louisianans dared to defy. The scene was the State Capitol at Baton Rouge and the action concerned Senator Long's thoroughly successful attempt to rivet his political dictatorship upon Louisiana in advance of the September primaries...
...This is a solid achievement to the credit of the international wheat agreement!" cried genial John I. McFarland, manager of the Canadian Wheat Pool. Other delegates saw no reason to contradict him. The nation which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage...
...Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm: Strangers cannot understand the debt of gratitude the German nation has contracted toward Adolf Hitler. ... He has inculcated by the force of his magnetism an historical evolution of the German nation...
With candor, real or assumed, Hitler said of Hindenburg: "After many battles he finally granted me his gracious friendship and thus founded a relationship which made me happy and was of the greatest help to the nation...
...total demanded will be $100,750 for 403 performances. Lyricist Patty Hill, who will share in the damages, if any, had no complaint to make on the use of the words because she long ago resigned herself to the fact that her ditty had become common property of the nation...