Word: state
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...addition to the officers, delegates will be chosen to attend the convention of the International Student Service to be held at the New Jersey State College for Women on December...
...last days of the Hoover Administration, although the President had twice sent messages urging its ratification. Last week he let it be known that he would bring up the Seaway again, in time for his prospective honeymoon with Congress during the third Administration. He had Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle publish the banns. In Detroit Mr. Berle read a Presidential message to a conference of Seaway supporters: "The United States needs the St. Lawrence Seaway for defense . . . tremendously needs the power project which will form a link in the Seaway . . . to produce aluminum and more aluminum for the airplane...
...before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1933 developed a mighty assemblage of opponents to the Seaway-shippers, economists, railroad men, representatives of the Port of New Orleans-speaking for interests that would be injured, or thought they would be injured, if the Seaway went through. And New York State's utilities had fought the Seaway from the start. Said the President: "Selfish interests will tell you that I am cloaking this great project in national defense in order to gain an objective which has always been dear to me. But I tell you that it has always been...
...there was something about the St. Lawrence Seaway. Like most gigantic projects of State planning-like Russia's White Sea Canal, Germany's Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with...
Passamaquoddy or the Florida Ship Canal, it might be abandoned in the face of natural difficulties. The U. S. after eight years had learned that the most soaring projects of State planning had a way of shaking down to workable human proportions...