Word: govern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's documentary spectacle at the Museum of Modern Art was well worth the attention of the U.S. Govern ment and Hollywood. An instructive example of how to use the cinema to help a nation rearm, it was also an important lesson in how to show a people what it has to fight...
Strangely enough, the drive behind the 10,000,000-ton expansion was not primarily the need of plate. It came chiefly from Leon Henderson, whose job is to govern civilian supplies, and who knows that many "civilian" needs are really auxiliary defense needs. He estimated that defense demands on present steel output would leave only 36,000,000 tons for 1942 civilian needs, "and," said he, "you can't even run a depression on that." (Gano Dunn, whose report did not make a deep impression in Washington, figured 67,000,000 tons would be left for civilians, if there...
...long as the power of the U.S. Government was divided on roughly equal terms between the Judiciary, the Executive and the Congress, a change in the Supreme Court did not mean a sweeping change in the interpretation of the Constitution. But industrialism welded the U.S. people toward economic unity. More & more problems arose requiring national solutions. Nearly everything but the law rode over artificial State boundaries. In the depression the U.S. began to demand that its Executive be more executive; that the Government govern more, assume the responsibility for its citizens' economic security and livelihood. So the New Deal...
...getting new tenants, busy German bureaucrats and the men of the Gestapo. On hand for the move was ferret-faced Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler himself, on a flying inspection trip from Germany. Thus, after a year, ended an ignoble experiment-the fumble-footed attempt of Major Vidkun Quisling to govern the country he betrayed...
...will find, among the most ignorant, uneducated, and illiterate people in the nation. If they were allowed to cast a ballot their vote would represent the persuasion of some Hucy Longish great promiser and petty briber rather than the intelligent choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem of the Southern poor people is not to repeal the poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task, but a far wiser and safer method than giving a vote immediately to ten million people...