Word: governance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Britain has had a Cabinet to govern it, a Cabinet Minister who could not bring himself to agree with his fellows was expected to resign. This unbroken precedent was broken last week...
...Governor Roosevelt's proximity to that nomination raises pregnant questions: What manner of man is he and of what stuff is he made? Is he bold and courageous and independent or is he just an honest politician whom Fate has tossed to the top? Has he the capacity to govern? Does his mind generate large ideas of political reformation or does he just utter lofty platitudes...
...haven't the ghost of an idea what it means," snorted Liberal Lloyd George. "I should have thought it was the business of those brought in to govern, to govern...
...President called-in correspondents, spoke volubly about his proposal to reorganize and consolidate certain Govern-ment departments and bureaus as a means of reducing Federal expenditure. Only in hard times, the President was aware, could such a patronage-destroying plan get Congressional consideration. Under the Hoover plan, outstanding mergers would be: 1) consolidation of all governmental construction under one director; 2) transfer of all merchant marine functions to the Department of Commerce; 3) grouping of all health and education services together. ¶ To the funeral of Richard Oulahan, New York Times correspondent and dean of Washington correspondents...
...Christians] becoming convinced by history, life's teacher, will be able to feel at least a longing for one fold under one shepherd and for a return to that true faith which is jealously conserved, ever secure and inviolate, in the Roman Church. "We recall to those who govern flocks separated from us that the faith which their ancestors solemnly professed at the Council of Ephesus is conserved unchanged and is strenuously defended, at Present as in the past, by this supreme chair of truth...