Word: govern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acquainted Congress with his National Defense Advisory Commission's rules to govern defense contracts. Point No. 1: speed first, price & profit second. Point No. 2: Labor is to keep its wage rates, hours standards, overtime...
Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Japanese Christian, has shown no itch to become a martyr by protesting his Govern ment's drive against Christianity in Japan (TIME, Sept. 9), but nonetheless news last week leaked from Japan: last month Japanese police pounced on Christian Kagawa, jailed him in the best Martin Niemöller style...
Last week, Frederick Osborn started a new job: $1-a-year population consultant for the Division of Statistical Standards. In Washington, his work will consist of determining the effect of such govern mental innovations as Rural Resettlement, TVA. First problem: Do improved en vironments stimulate birth rates...
Since his arrival in Canada last June, the 66-year-old G.G. has fulfilled his vague job admirably. A previous G.G. once complained about the title because, he said, he was not a general and did not govern...
...June 1939 ex-Sportsman Emanuel was flying to Nashville to visit his good friend Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. An hour late, his excuse was that he had spent the time searching for Fort Knox, hiding place of U. S. gold. Said Evans: "If the Govern ment has done so well in hiding its gold reserves, wouldn't it be a good idea to have airplane factories here?" Within a year Stinson had finished its new $2,000,000 Nashville plant...