Word: governance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awaited him on the station platform, airplanes swooped overhead. Over the door of his villa ran the legend: BIENVENIDO ("Welcome"), formed of red carnations and asparagus fronds. Perched perilously on the garden wall were a number of orators from the Federal District Commission, loudly announcing that the next Mexican Govern-ment is destined to become potent in world affairs. Three hundred prominent Mexican ladies arrived in automobiles to give the Mexican embrace to the First-Lady-Elect of Mexico, Senora Carmen de Ortiz Rubio...
...labor injunction, with which the book deals, is America's distinctive contribution to the legal adjustment of industrial relations. The present book gives an account of the labor injunction in action, based on a detailed study of the rules of procedure which govern the granting of injunctions, the kind, of evidence upon which they are based, their actual scope and the procedure of their enforcement. The book gives also a history of the legislative efforts to define and limit the use of the injunction in labor disputes, examines the judicial application of such legislation, summarizes the present status...
...with cruelty, we are reducing them to nothingness with kindness. . . . The American Governor General of the Philippines is one of the hopeless creations in the whole of governmental history. . . . He can get nothing done without licking the boots of ... the mestizo [half-caste], the only class literate enough to govern...
Assuming that the Philippines are not ready for independence, Observer Lodge proposed alternatives: 1) Govern them as they should be governed, as the British, and Dutch govern their Oriental possessions; or 2) Sell them to a power with colonizing experience and the capacity to govern...