Word: govern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HERALD'S CENTURY [TIME, SEPT. 2], IF YOU THINK WE COULD OBTAIN PETRILLO'S UNION PORT OF BOSTON BAND FOR FREE YOU ARE NUTS. WE DID NOT PAY ANY HALF PRICE FOR FIREWORKS. IF WE ARE BEST OF THE PURELY LOCAL BOSTON SHEETS, WHY DO WE GOVERN OURSELVES EVERY NIGHT BY THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES? WE HAVE FOUGHT CURLEYISM FOR 15 YEARS AND ON JAN. 23 RAN A TWO-COLUMN LEAD EDITORIAL CALLING ON HIM TO RESIGN- AND NOT IN ANY CAREFULLY MODULATED VOICE EITHER. BUT THANKS JUST THE SAME...
...there remained on Spain's shores this week one small stretch of sand which Franco's mandatory morality could not govern: the roped-off diplomatic section of the San Sebastian beach. On the edge of this exclusive area, Spaniards leered at diplomatically immune bathers, immodestly stretching out in their soggy suits...
...choice of William Henry Hastie to be Governor of the Virgin Islands, the President had sent a Negro to govern a predominantly Negro population. In picking Jesús Piñero, he said that he was giving an earnest of the U.S. desire for U.S. colonials to have a greater voice in their government...
Ortega barely mentions the word democracy in his book; he is less concerned with what form government takes than with its need to have an acceptable illusion to govern by. Missing from Philosopher Ortega's thesis is evidence that the medieval peasants and Roman multitudes shared his enthusiastic acceptance of the conditions under which they lived. But Ortega-who is paradoxically a hater of the law and of institutions, which he accepts only because he considers them "realities"-insists that oppression can be carried to great lengths before it becomes as destructive and perilous to the life and spirit...
...Communist line is equally placatory. Thorez insists that the present stage of French development calls for a democratic regime and that the only ambition of the Communist Party is to be the most democratic of French parties. It follows, he says, that the French Communist Party will govern only if it gets the support of a majority of the French people. On nationalization of industry, the last Assembly went almost as far as the Communists want to go, except that they would like to see all-rather than some-heavy industry taken over by the state. The Communists will...