Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the New Deal's emergency measures for recovery he would not quarrel. But because a nation's greatest moral, spiritual, economic and governmental change is involved in a shift in its fundamental social ideas, the big question remained: Does the New Deal represent such a shift? Said Herbert Hoover: "This is solely an issue. Honest men will treat it as such." Analyzing New Deal policies in currency, in finance, in agriculture he found such a change; a similar change in its insistence that the U. S. social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation...
...torn country. Impressed by the facts presented, Mr. Hoover not only arranged to get hold of the food, but persuaded the Allied powers to relax the blockade still being enforced in the Baltic to allow the food to be shipped in. It was a life-saver for the nation in its struggle against the Reds...
...Berlin, before the Academy, Lawyer Frank defined Germany's new code as "war law," predicted that these Nazi principles of law would soon become a part of world law. "The maxim 'Right is whatever profits a nation; wrong is whatever harms it,' marked the beginning of our legal work," Dr. Frank keynoted. "Pale phantoms of objective justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger...
Russia's Joseph Stalin began his invasion last fortnight with these advantages reversed. Instead of a disgruntled ruling class, he faced a nation which, almost to the man, hates the Russians as bloody oppressors.* And instead of clear weather and frozen lakes, Joe Stalin's forces found themselves fighting in a blinding blizzard, which grounded aviation, smashed tanks against half-concealed boulders and granite tank barriers, and gave to the Finns, who fight guerrilla-style in small units, with short, light machine guns and short, razor-edged knives, an almost even break. By the end of the second...
...this year U. S. department store sales have been 5% over 1938. Last month they were up 6%. Week ending Dec. 2, with Christmas drawing near, they nose-dived a thumping 29% in Boston, 10% in New York City, 5% for the nation. Said the Retail Merchants Associated Board of Trade, Inc.: "We have blamed it on everybody...