Word: governability
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...Chairman Carter Glass* of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who remembers when the whole U. S. Govern-ment ran itself on a billion dollars a year, last week rose to his feet in horror. Before the Senate was a bill appropriating $1,218,000,000 to run the Department of Agriculture in fiscal 1940. He earnestly asked unanimous consent to reconsider the $383,000,000 which the Senate had added to the House version of the bill. Would not his colleagues give second thought before approving the biggest Farm Bill in U. S. history...
...American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called "the handmaid of expansion...
...sudden stroke from the sky. Recently Londoners have taken to rushing to their windows whenever airplanes drone overhead, as they used to when planes were a novelty. In Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street and in Whitehall, this psychosis has taken the form of a question: Who will govern Britain if we are blown to Blarney? The Government's first answer to it was to divide all Britain into twelve administrative sections,* each of which would operate as an independent country if cut off from the rest. Last week 13 men were named to be "dictators" of those countries...
...Harvant is afraid that with a closed shop it won't be able to govern its employees. I don't think this is tree for we would still follow College orders. We would have to, or we would discredit our union and loss car jobs...
...nation in the struggle with the Rising Sun, Only he is in contact with the current of scientific development which flows in the Occident. Only he is capable of building a backbone for national resistance-a backbone designed to meet modern specifications. And only he is able to govern, to fill the administrative offices of the Nationalist Government...