Word: governability
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...sense of humor, that leading Chinese characteristic, somewhat lightened the tragedy of flight from the Capital last week. Discharged but grinning Govern-ment clerks called to each other such jokes as "See you in Sinkiang!"-thus jocularly implying that the Government may ultimately flee 2,000 miles to remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan...
...Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises and the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception...
...light of the unfolding developments in the Far East the Government of the United States has been forced to the conclusion that the action of Japan in China is inconsistent with the principles which should govern the relationships between nations and is contrary to the provisions of the Nine-Power Treaty of Feb. 6, 1922, regarding principles and policies to be followed in matters concerning China, and to those of the Kellogs-Briand pact of Aug. 27, 1928. Thus the conclusions of this Government with respect to the foregoing are in general accord with those of the Assembly...
...created council, authorized by law, will guide the course of the National Cancer Institute at Rethesda, Maryland. Serving with five other prominent scientists among whom is Dr. Arthur H. Campton, Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, President Conant will have as duties the consideration of regulations to govern the granting of aid to cancer control projects, and the creating of fellowships...
...this was a traditional Rus-sian custom among friends and that it made them blood brothers. After this ceremony the General made a flowery talk proclaiming his friendship for the U. S. and the American people, and urging us as representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment when we returned home about his army's need for American money and munitions. The banquet closed with all of the Americans filing past General Semenov who embraced each American and planted a bushy kiss on each cheek in the European fashion...