Word: governed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uniform standards an procedures to govern the selection of enlisted men for participation in the Army Specialized Program was announced yesterday by the War Department. Men between 18 and 22 who have passed their basic training will be given a special standardized objective test for college aptitude, and a selection board will give its attention to any man who has a minimum score...
...stay a civilian, a man will have to justify his status by holding a job essential to the prosecution of the war. The draft director laid down the principle that will govern from now on: "I believe it will be the inevitable tendency of manpower procurement ... to give more weight to what a man is doing than to dependency...
There is a happy hobnobbing among politicians in Winston Churchill's Britain which cuts across most party lines. Tories, Liberals and Laborites govern together; Tories, Liberals and Communists speak for the same things from the same platforms. But top Laborites and Communists neither speak nor drink together. Labor's leadership, in fact, has decreed that no Laborite shall appear on the same platform as a Communist...
According to Lippmann, de Tocqueville concluded that the British aristocracy survived because its members "accepted heavy burdens in order that they might be allowed to continue to govern," while the French aristocracy perished because they preferred to cling "to their privileges and immunities to console themselves for having lost to the king the power to govern." U.S. business can perish or survive according to how it chooses between the same essential alternatives today. But the great danger is that U.S. businessmen will unwittingly suffer the fate of the nobility of France - unless they stop "brooding upon their grievances and their...
...world is getting tired of German-provoked wars," Allport said, and for that reason, a 30 year "government by commission" headed by German as well as by international leaders, could solve the problem of eliminating Nazi-ism and preparing the German people for the time when they will govern themselves and take part, unaggressively, in a world federation...