Word: governing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugenics meeting in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and the International Congress of Genetics meeting at Cornell (Ithaca, N. Y.). There are 23,000 primroses in the gardens, whose complete genealogical histories Professor George Harrison Shull sedulously registers. From those histories statisticans deduce laws of heredity which govern primroses, peas, pigs and people. The Japanese beetles were injuring the primroses. Professor Shull obtained a grant-in-aid from the National Research Council to buy some beetle poison...
...splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." Handsome Lieut. George C. Calnan of the U. S. Navy, selected because he has been on four U. S. Olympic fencing teams, recited the oath...
...Wagner, New York Democrat. Last week the Senate by an overwhelming but unrecorded vote passed the Wagner bill. As they went to conference, the Garner and Wagner bills were alike only in that each called for a public outlay of about $2,300,000,000 to make jobs, stimulate government construction and feed the hungry. The principal provisions of the two bills which had to be compromised by the House and Senate conferees were: Wagner Bill Garner Bill A $500,000,000 Treas-A Treasury Bond is-ury bond issue to be sue of approximately spent on Federal public...
...elected to oppose this Govern-ment but in my first speech I must support them!" cried Mr. Lloyd George. "I was the leader of the delegation which negotiated the Irish Treaty [in 1921] so I have had experience with Mr. de Valera. There is no one quite like him and this distracted world should be thankful that he is unique! [cries of 'Hear, Hear'] . . . . His demand is that Ireland be an independent and sovereign State associated with the British Empire but equally associated with any other empire. We cannot accept that! [tremendous cheer-ing]. . . . If we were to have anything...
...marvelous," declares Under Secretary Cavaciocchi, "to see how the most precise valuation of time and the most scrupulous system in program govern the intensely laborious days of our Duce! He talks little, often indicating to his associates what he wants done by a single word, a wave of the hand or a roll of the eyes...