Word: governance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons having a serious desire to govern their actions by intelligence rather than emotion have a right to ask such questions. Can it be that the political platform which so long dedicated a plank to the conception of an international court contemplated a court to which we would never have to submit a case? We have such a court now in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and to it we have submitted four substantial controversies. Would we submit any more cases to a court over whose composition for years to come we would probably have no say? If this...
...straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend of sentiment that is highly popular. This story is about a large Irish-Catholic family in San Francisco-the mother praying and dreaming about her "little angels," the boys getting jobs, the girls getting married, the father trying to govern his family without assistance from the convent nuns...
...common sense, although it may disturb sticklers for the old-fashioned code of amateurism. "We must be chary," says the committee, "of forbidding acts when the evil lies only in their abuse or only in the practical difficulty of discrimination." At the same time, there must be regulations to govern amateur standing, and the mistake must not be made of opening the door to evasions. New York Times...
...incalculable," Dr. Kennedy writes. "If that influence is good, making for discipline and inculcation of sportsmanship, the coach becomes in a real sense an assisting agent in the processes of the student's education. If that influence is evil, permitting false values and a repudiation of sportsmanship to govern the boy's point of view, the coach becomes a sinister, and perhaps a powerful underminer of the high purpose of the college...
This move, according to Signor Mussolini's cabinet, will end the incompetence which is corollary to petty political warfare, and substitute "an organ of government above parties." The Fascisti are apparently resolved to introduce more competence and more of themselves into Italian politics, for, as Signor Mussolin frankly admits, "You cannot govern with words...