Word: govern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consent of the Governed. All the discussion had not been pitched on so hysterical a level. Ohio's grey, motherly, plain-spoken Republican Frances P. Bolton had warned: "If we cannot change our attitude about race we are going to bring upon the heads of our children . . . a cataclysm." Chicago's William L. Dawson, the only Negro member of Congress, had best stated the issue: "A democracy is that government that exists by the consent of the governed, and that is the thing we are trying to do here today-to give certain citizens the right...
...step the Germans may well nullify by painting their own fighters the same way. But Flying Fortress and Liberator gunners will probably not be overly worried by such dodges. Where there is doubt, a gunner shoots at anything within range. It is up to friendly fighter pilots to govern themselves accordingly...
...first shock of the Doolittle raid was tremendous, but the effect soon passed and the Tokyo Government turned the aftermath to good account in Japan. Anti aircraft defenses were reorganized, and a great campaign was launched to stimulate public air raid precautions. The Govern ment even distributed copies of LIFE maps of Japan, to remind the Japanese that the enemy knew where to strike...
...complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born with an obligation to act." Mrs. Prohme's spirit urged Sheean, if he could not fight, to write against "the whole system of organized injustice by which few govern many, hundreds of millions work in darkness to support a few thousands in ease . . . and the greater part of the human race has to live in filth and starvation to maintain an artificial system of profit." Sheean promised. The result was Personal History and Not Peace but a Sword (TIME...
...Washington this week a big spotlight was thrown on one of the most important, least understood U.S. laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits. In the spotlight was a lucid, compact 19-page report by the Senate's hard-working Tru man Investigating Committee. The report lambasted the four price boards (Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury) for "confusion [and] too much secrecy," and suggested improvements...