Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver enthusiasm of speculative interests. Generality. Not in his silver bill but as part of an accompanying message to Congress, the President declared himself in favor of broadening the metallic base of U. S. money by the use of both silver and gold-but only on condition other nations joined the U. S. in a world move toward bimetallism. The proviso overshadowed the proposal. Although the President expressed hope of getting international action, every statesman knew that no important nation except the U. S. is willing even to consider bimetallism...
...possible. Sally Rand had been taken up by the movies, and the Fair's general manager, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, had not encouraged any more fan dancing. But one carnival man was planning an act in which his girls used just a few roses. To see the nation's biggest show, 155,000 people clicked through the turnstiles the first day, 35,000 more than the first day last year. Already 5,000,000 future admissions had been sold. The Fair Administration hoped to play host to 3,.000,000 before Oct. 31. With all guaranteed bonds...
...Roosevelt Administration was the buck so neatly passed to the U. S. President Hoover had earnestly tried to halt the shipment of arms to the Chaco. Then in April 1933 the House had passed an Administration resolution authorizing the President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into a war than to keep...
...driven is that there is no such thing as a sanction which will work which does not mean war. In other words if we adopt sanctions we must be ready for war, and if we adopt them without being ready for war we are not honest trustees of the nation. ... If this country is giving Europe a collective guarantee or collective sanctions, it means we must make this country a great deal stronger than it is today...
...Schneider-Creusot subsidiary in Czechoslovakia--got it through the Banquet General de Credit Hongrois; Which in turn is financed by the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne, of which Eugene Schnelder is a director. Thus it was that Schneider contrived once again to circumvent his government and rearm a nation that France had spend blood and treasure in the attempt to disarm...