Word: government
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamiltonian sort of person who viewed the People with alarm? Was it by any chance purely a vote-hunting cry? In any case, was it a wise cry, politically? The nub of the Hoover speech was this: during the War, the U. S. Govern ment was centralized, given extraordinary powers over U. S. business, viz., the opera tion of the railroads. After the War, the extraordinary powers were withdrawn, control decentralized. "There has been revived in this campaign, however, a series of proposals which, if adopted, would be a long step towards the abandonment of our American system...
...News-Sentinel is one of the 26 Scripps-Howard chain-papers. All the young Scripps-Howard editors are supporting Nominee Hoover this year.? All the young Scripps-Howard editors are also supporting the government-ownership-and-operation side of the Water Power question. Editor Meeman of the News-Sentinel was apparently satisfied that Nominee Hoover's first postscript implied govern ment ownership and operation for Muscle Shoals...
...official Intramural rules will govern eligibility and may be found in the Intramural handbook for this year obtainable at Wadsworth House or at the Locker Building...
...alarm is sounding and all who can see further ahead than tomorrow (I believe nobody who cannot see at least fifty years ahead has a right to govern a nation) are worried. . . . The whole of urban Italy shows a birth deficit. Not only is there not equilibrium, but deaths exceed the births. We have reached a tragic phase of the phenomenon. The cradles of our cities are empty and the cemeteries growing...
...deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled so much better than the kings? It is because men govern under women's guidance, whereas women rule by the advice...