Word: governance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct I trust I may yield to no Senator in fairness, courtesy and kindliness and in deference to those unwritten laws which always govern any association of gentlemen, whether official or private. It shall be my purpose not to transgress in any way those limits to my official activity determined by the Constitution of the United States and by proper parliamentary procedure...
...week turned his head this way and that, like a victim in the hands of a photographer, but never would he look in the lens. At last he gave up his evasive fight, admitted that the Kurds had revolted, under the leadership of Sheik Said, against the National Turkish Government at Angora. He further admitted that the revolt was serious. Martial law was proclaimed. Eight Turkish divisions (two-fifths of the entire Standing Army) were dispatched to Kurdistan* to quell the bloodthirsty Kurds. Five classes of conscripts were called to the colors. General Ismet Pasha, onetime Prime Minister, was appointed...
...this change has advanced is uncertain, but that it is making giant strides is certain. The literature of the sophisticates has a very strong vogue. A certain moral squeamishness and affectation has disappeared: facts, rather than romantic fallacies, govern youth's outlook more and more. This generation has looked into the past and not the good men, but those who have seen life in its completeness. And today youth, with "A Professor" in its ranks, looks beneath the respected traditions of conduct, and tries to see life whole...
...believe the same ethics and rules of honor we observe in our personal conduct should govern us in politics. Some of us on this side of the Chamber have been abetting and urging sabotage and apparently expecting the admiration and applause of the American people for the brilliancy of the performance. The people have neither applauded nor approved. We have incurred along with the sting of defeat the more bitter sting of contempt...
...University is represented on the governing board of the new league by G. T. McClure '06, who carried on the negotiations with West Point whereby the cadets entered the new combination. The committee is now engaged in forming a set of rules to govern the organization. The finances are being cared for by graduates of the several colleges...