Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with your kind reference to my study of church attendance on p. 29 of TIME for July 2, may I, in fairness to the nation's churches, add as follows...
...sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary to existing law. . . . The Minister of Economics may punish failure to obey his rulings with imprisonment or fines. There is no limit to the size of the fine...
...Bavarian Alps, a bad case of jitters sent Vice Leader Rudolf Hess of the Nazi Party, who is often called "Hitler's Other Self," dashing up to Königsberg, the picturesque capital of Old Paul's East Prussia. Shouting like one possessed over a nation-wide radio hookup, Orator Hess roared that the Storm Troops are not military, but that Leader Hitler has a right to condemn even guiltless Storm Troopers to death because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some...
Over station WMAQ, Chicago, on the night of March 28, 1928, the nation first heard the radio blackface comic strip team of Amos and Andy. Amos (Freeman F. Gosden), the patient and long-suffering one, was discovered plaintively complaining about having to do all the work on their Georgia farm while dumb, blustering Andy (Charles J. Correll) loafed under a shade tree. Amos and Andy soon went north to Chicago to find work...
...Turner last week. University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman let it be known that Professor Turner's liberal activities had nothing to do with the case. Said Chancellor Bowman: "I merely thought his position here could be better filled by another man." But the nation raised a doubtful eyebrow. Too many facts fitted too neatly into a contrary pattern. In 1921 hardfisted, go-getting Chancellor Bowman had a vision. He would dramatize and thus revive his huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic building in the world. For 13 years...