Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days last week President Roosevelt had scored three "firsts." He was the first U. S. President to visit the Panama Canal, which he crossed in six hours. Day before he had been the first President ever to set foot in South American soil, the first to address the nation by radio from a foreign state. The last two "firsts" were recorded at Cartagena where he and Colombia's President Enrique Olaya Herrera greeted each other. After mutual professions of esteem and goodwill, the two Presidents took a drive about the 400-year-old capital of the Spanish Main. A point...
...very centre of the paralyzed region, in his office at San Francisco's City Hall, sat Mayor Angelo Rossi. The clock on his desk ticked up to 8:01 a. m. That was the zero hour for organized labor to begin the nation's biggest general strike since 1919. For months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf...
Over the radio and by proclamation he addressed his city and the nation. "The unions in this strike have no grievances," said he. "Many of them have contracts with their employers which this strike will violate. . . . Those who seek to prolong this strike for their own selfish ends or to overthrow the government here in San Francisco or even the Government of the United States will be dealt with by every force of law and order. ....* I feel that we are confronted by the most serious situation which has beset us since the disaster of 1906. I therefore proclaim...
...wails louder about Nazi anti-Semitism than Samuel Untermyer. In Philadelphia last month that orchidaceous Manhattan lawyer told an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House and the nation-at-large by radio that pious Adman Bruce Barton (The Man Nobody Knows) was "the recognized paid agent of the German Propaganda Bureau." Mr. Barton sent his attorney around to see Mr. Untermyer and last week quick-spoken Mr. Untermyer was down on his knees with a full apology, a complete retraction. "Remarks of that kind," he wrote Mr. Barton, "travel so fast that when they are incorrect it is almost impossible...
...twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity with Louisiana voters may be on the wane, but at Baton Rouge he is still an autocrat. In a fashion which would have won instinctive approval from Benito Mussolini, he began to get things done...