Word: governance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Poincaré, replying to criticism on Government inaction, reproved the long-winded oratory of his opponents. Said he: "The best way to help the Government govern and increase production is not to force it to sit here morning, noon and night...
...Arthur Ponsonby, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, wrote that the Govern-ment had no intention of ceding Jamaica or any other British possession...
...contest is open to undergraduates of Harvard and Radcliffe only. The rules printed in the University Catalogue govern the contest. Manuscipts are due at 9 University Hall on or before April...
...found the panacea for which the laboring classes search. The significance of this is apparent, and Mr. Strachey brings it out in discussing Labor as a partner of industry; for, as demand is the raison d'être of wealth derived through the medium of Labor, it should govern Labor's attitude to employers, to strikes and to itself. In other words, to borrow Mr. Strachey's simile, if Labor wants a larger share of the cake, a larger cake must be made and a larger cake can only be made if there are enough people...
...with the past invariably have to pick them up again. "I can see no hope in India," he said, "if it becomes the arena of a struggle between constitutionalism, and revolution. No party in Great Britain will be cowed by threats of force or by policies designed to bring govern-ment to a standstill, and if sections in India are under the delusion that that is not so, events will very sadly disappoint them." He went on to say that revolutionary methods forced out the moderates and allowed the two extremes of reaction "to kick and tear and sweat against...