Word: governed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast as cable wires could hum. Legion National Commander Louis Arthur Johnson rebuked Easterwood: "Constitution prohibits honorary memberships in American Legion. Please govern yourself accordingly." Undaunted, Easterwood invited King Victor Emanuel to address the Legion's October convention in Chicago by radio, told him the Legion's 1936 convention would probably be held in Rome. The King gave Easterwood his warm, rabbit-toothed smile. Said Legion ary Easterwood of his new friends: "They both are war veterans of a country allied with us in the World War, and they have a right to wear the buttons...
...justify such drastic measures to the World up hopped intense, club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. "It is a Democratic fallacy that people want to govern themselves." shrilled he. "In our Germanic Democracy, people do not themselves engage in politics. They leave that to men having their confidence-to a hierarchy of leaders...
...Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests against "the horrors of this new deal . . . its unspeakable cruelties . . . its indefensible hardships." Vainly did the President's spokesmen promise that he was about to remedy these injustices. Senators had heard from home and Demo-crats and Republicans alike were afraid to return there...
...years ago, when all British politicians preached free trade, this would have been an unexceptionable remark from the Heir to the Throne. Today there is a potent group in the National Govern-ment who, having swallowed a high tariff and the idea of economic nationalism within the Empire, find it very much to their liking. Leader of this group is long-necked Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer and head of Britain's delegation at the W. E. C. Chancellor Chamberlain, making his last official speech before the Conference's opening, seemed to be replying...
...Public & International Affairs (TIME, March 3, 1930). Chosen chairman, Dr. Dodds developed the school as a coordinator of courses in modern languages, history, politics, economics, geography and public-speaking, with round-tables and lectures by outsiders. This week, during Commencement, the School will square off at ''Govern-mental Measures for the Revival of Business...