Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since "Dictatorship" has an ugly sound, Stalin's Stetsky hastily added that after the world has gone Red its triumphant Communists will have no further need to dictate, will set about achieving "that social order in which there will be no need of a "special structure to govern the people." Name of this ultimate social order: Anarchy...
...thousand underlings post over land and sea or sit at desks doing their bidding. Day by day NIRB turns out reams of decisions and orders which, for affected industries, have all the authority of substantive law. In every city, town and hamlet NRA's viceroys, the code authorities, govern as best they can. The 1,400 mills of the cotton textile industry, employing half a million workers, which for years had known no law but strife, now all obey one law in regard to hours, wages, production. To other industries, such as automobiles, the change may make less difference...
...example, the Central Powers were protecting their "besieged fortress" from the encircling policy of the Entente, while the latter group was engaged in crushing the great German military monsters. In the Spanish-American War the United States was protecting the abused Cubans, while Spain defended its right to govern its territory as it saw fit. It may be that in some cases there does exist an actual philosophical conflict between right and wrong, but this is never visible to the populace of the nations concerned...
Although the heart is an automatic motor, it cannot govern its own speed. Two nerves and two body chemicals do that. The accelerator nerve and adrenalin (hormone of the adrenal glands) speed up the heart. The vagus nerve and acetylcholine (hormone produced by the vagus nerve) slow down the heart...
...great international exhibition at the Royal Academy's Burlington House will be of Chinese art, scheduled for next winter. Collector Eumorfopoulos has agreed to serve on the committee. He will sail for China next month to help choose some of the famed Forbidden City treasures which the Nationalist Govern-ment has offered to lend...