Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the nation learned that Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace and a U. S. Deputy Marshal had been playing a midnight game of volley ball with a Federal court summons. In Baltimore a suit had been filed by Royal Farms Dairy questioning the constitutionality of AAA, naming Secretary Wallace a defendant. Unable to tag him in the District of Columbia, the process server had seized the opportunity of cornering the sleeping Secretary while he was rolling through Maryland on his way to Chautauqua. N. Y. to deliver an address...
...That so little sense of the moral responsibilities of high position should be manifested by the family . . . seems to us to be a family disgrace, a disgrace to the nation, and a disgrace to the Church of which the family are members and in which they are occasional worshippers. There have been some expressions of pride among Churchmen in having a fellow Churchman, a parish warden and vestryman, and a cathedral trustee, as President. Pride came before a fall. Humiliation has followed. We need another 'new deal...
...proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton I decreed himself Protector of Mexico. He dropped this title after ill-fated Maximilian's brief reign, remarking that "It is impossible to protect such an unsettled nation...
...zealous, well-disciplined fathers of the Society of Jesus number 4,700 in the U. S.-more than in any other nation including Catholic Italy and Catholic Spain. Most intellectual of Catholic orders, the Jesuits are famed for their colleges. Last week in their Chicago Province (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee and Illinois) there was pious rejoicing, for a rich Indianan named Edward Ballard had just given the Jesuits a sumptuous $7,000,000 hotel to turn into a new college...
...Star Game. Sports Editor Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune last year promoted the idea of a game between picked stars of the American and National Leagues to advertise the World's Fair. The game drew a crowd of 49,000, and netted $42,000 for the benefit of indigent members of the Association of Professional Ball Players. This year League officials thought it would be wise to have another all-star game. Managers Bill Terry of the World-Champion Giants, and Joe Cronin of last year's pennant-winning Washington Senators were invited to select and manage...