Word: governance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leaders of all important Christian bodies except one were present (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.). The Roman Catholic, itself a church universal, was not represented. † Recently appointed to govern the American Episcopal churches in Europe...
...their due perspective. But when they are allowed to dominate the intellectual life of the colleges they become abuses. The paid coach, the professional organization of college athletics, the demoralization of students by the use of extravagant sums of money, constitute a reproach to American colleges and those who govern them...
...full of sagacity and experience, will govern the city in a spirit mindful of its past and its future...
...greatest patriots I have ever known. It is he who is working out the problems hundreds of years old, and he is doing it quietly and carefully after a revolution in which not one civilian was shot or sent to prison. He feels that the military should not govern nor be the first line of defense. The army, he holds, is the last line of defense, and he is bringing the citizens to see it that...
...farce that Greece is a republic. They tendered a gala banquet to military and naval men at Athens. Amid the popping of champagne corks, Premier Pangalos arose and proclaimed himself the head of an absolute dictatorship over Greece: "Henceforth, with the help of the Army and Navy, I will govern as dictator. Greece in a few months will have a fleet dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, and the strongest army in the Balkans...