Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of them-hardly knowing whether to quake with fear or roar with merriment. Before a House Committee hearing on the Stock Exchange Control bill, a measure drafted by the Administration's brilliant young legalites, appeared James H. Rand Jr. (Remington-Rand), chairman of the Committee for the Nation. Mr. Rand's Committee, which was all in favor of devaluating the dollar, is all against the Exchange bill. Solemnly Mr. Rand read the Committee an extraordinary memorandum which he had received from William Albert Wirt of Gary. Ind. Dr. Wirt, now 60, is superintendent of Gary...
...Aryan descent, free of Jewish or colored racial traces"; their political ideal "is organically conceived and consequently the very antithesis of liberal Democratic ideas. Believing in the authority of leadership . . . we advocate a state of truly sovereign authority which dominates all the forces of the nation...
...self-respecting nation can act under pressure from abroad to change her treatment of the Jews within her borders. . . . Russian experience has been that the presence of Jews within her borders is a perpetual menace not only to the integrity of the country, but to law and order. . . . Not cynically, but seriously, while Russia cannot abandon her restrictions on Jews we are prepared to consider an arrangement by which the United States might cooperate for the transfer of all Jews from Russia to the United States...
...state with all emphasis at my command that the Japanese nation makes it a basic principle to collaborate in peace and harmony with all nations, and has no intention whatever to provoke and make trouble with any other power...
THERE have been few expeditions of discovery that have so captured the interest of a whole nation and of scientific men all over the world as has the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the first white men to travel overland from St. Lewis to Puget Sound. Many books have been written about that trip; the journals of the two leaders have been published and reprinted many times; and a few authors have attempted to set down a brief account of the life of the leader of the expedition. Of these Thomas Jefferson has written by far the best account...