Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper balcony of Iolani Palace where, to a crowd below and all Hawaii by radio. he delivered a seven minute address. Shrewdly he titillated Hawaiians by espousing their favorite claim: "Your Administration in Washington will not forget that you are in very truth an integral part of the nation.'' But nothing did he say of increasing the islands' sugar quota or continuing the historical policy of appointing Governors only from residents of the islands-the two chief reasons for Hawaii's claim of "integrality." An expected part of the President's address, a declaration...
Only one statesman is able to take the microphone in France and talk successfully to the entire nation as "My dear fellow citizens and friends." The people call him affectionately Gastounet ("Little Gaston"). They sympathized when he was a lonely bachelor and President of France. They appreciated his delicacy in waiting until his next to last week in office before marrying a lady of wealth with a chateau in southern France. When President Gaston Doumergue retired his popularity remained such as utterly to eclipse his two successors. There was no one else whom sad-eyed, colorless President Albert Lebrun could...
...track team and made another speech. In a corner sat a newshawk for the Swedish sports journal Idrottsbladet, taking down his words. What the reporter thought he heard the Minister say made headlines next day in Idrottsbladet. It was: "Be on your watch. The Swedes are a jealous nation and do not like to see foreign sportsmen triumph. Maribel Vinson [champion U. S. woman figure-skater from 1928 to 1934] was unfairly marked down by the judges, for a Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth...
...realize the inherent limitations of aviation and to consider ocean barriers." For the so-called Mitchell plan of unification of the Army & Navy air forces under a separate air department the committee had scant sympathy. Such a plan "would be a serious error, jeopardize the security of the Nation in an emergency, and be an unnecessary burden on the tax-payer...
Margaret Isabel Cole lectures for the University Tutorial classes in London, contributes to The New Statesman and Nation, The Spectator, serves as Secretary to the Socialist League. Graduated from Cambridge (First Honors in classics) she took a job in a Labor Research Bureau of which G. D. H. Cole was honorary secretary. Married in 1918, the two continued to write, for the most part individually of abstruse economics, jointly of fictional adventures. In October, Knopf is bringing out a 400-page joint effort entitled The Intelligent. Man's Survey of Modern Politics intended, the authors say "to . . . present...