Word: ernment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, the Canadian Gov ernment permitted U. S. agents to stand on the Windsor, Ont., liquor export docks as a means of checking rum-running to Detroit, which cut the flow to" the low ebb of 500 cases per day. This, Canada considered, was part of "neighborly co operation," whereas the I'm Alone case involved a major international principle...
...keen readers of both stories last week were inclined to give Author Coolidge credit for fitting his prose to his medium. For Cosmopolitan readers the Coolidge pen had raced intimately. For Ladies' Home Journal readers it had dealt ponderously with peace, defense, good gov- ernment. Publisher Curtis might have felt last week that he, like William Randolph Hearst, had gotten just what he wanted for his readers...
...with just pride that no one had ever charged corruption against the Bureau of Internal Revenue, he concluded: "The real issue is whether the income tax is to be ad ministered by the executive branch of the government in accordance with every precedent and every sound principle of gov ernment, or is to be turned over to the judicial branch...
...these lines was, of course, the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Last week, she and her daughter-in-law, Princess Helen, mother of Baby King Mihai, jointly received in audience the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu - he who has just overthrown the corrupt, oligarchical gov ernment of onetime Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 12 et seq.). To the Dowager Queen and the Princess-Mother-of-a-King, Peasant Maniu revealed a truly staggering state of affairs. He declared that upon coming into power, last fortnight, he found in the Royal Treasury a cash balance of exactly...
...again drew his picture of the Gov¬ernment as an organism of extreme complexity, intricacy, delicacy...