Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, as a victory for Warren, Brownell, Eisenhower and the National Association for the Agitation of Colored People."* Shouted Candidate Almond in the "Black Belt" town of Danville: "We mean to stand and fight with that honor characteristic of Virginia, to preserve Virginia's sacred, sovereign right to govern her own internal affairs...
...local bar society, which has some feelings about the rule of law, none of this seemed to distress many Ghanaians. But it raised outcries all over Britain, which having launched this "Pilot Plant of African Democracy" to show South Africa's Racists how well the blacks could govern themselves, at first sought to minimize its misgivings (TIME, Sept. 2). What particularly raised British hackles was an awareness that actions in Accra were not just the doing of a headstrong Nkrumah but were shrewdly encouraged by a white eminence, Ghana's recently appointed Attorney General, Ulster-born Geoffrey Bing...
...result of this analysis of our way of life, we must inevitably conclude that our greatest deficiency is that we have not yet applied our knowledge of how men may govern themselves by law to the determination of all disputes between countries. The opportunity now presented for men and peoples skilled in the law is therefore the greatest of all time. What we need is the development of the law of nations in our age which will first bind the countries of the world into solemn voluntary pacts governing their great interests on the world scene, in contrast to unilateral...
...bill's most dangerous opponent was Ohio's Frank Bow, who threatened to tack on it what the House calls "The Bow thing"-a resolution to scrap U.S. status-of-forces agreements (TIME. June 17), which govern the arrangements for law enforcement for U.S. troops overseas. Waving off all remonstrances, Bow did experience at the last moment a tactical change of heart. He decided to save his amendment for the actual appropriation bill, where it would be more potent. But Texas Democrat Omar Burleson grabbed the issue, offered a "sense of Congress" amendment calling on the President...
...eight journalists were arrested or indicted, and 15 French publications were confiscated in Algeria and Paris for stories and editorials critical of the government in the six-month period. As Defense Minister, concluded the I.P.I, report, M. Bourges-Maunoury "revealed to the world, if such were still necessary, the weakness of French politics and the panic of officials who wish to govern with the approval of the public-yet fear its reactions...