Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson: Stripped of shadowy verbiage, this means that the choice of the American people is between Fascism and Communism, neither of which can be espoused by any one who believes in our democratic institutions of self-govern-ment; nor can any public official who has taken an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States adopt or officially advocate such a program...
Stressing the need for the availability of advanced education to all as is secondary education, President Conant said that geographical or economic considerations should not be allowed to bar the way; "selection we must have, but it should be based on the real factors which govern a man's ability . . . and not a selection based on the accident of birth...
...Good Friday the Reich Bishop offered those pastors who rebelled at the imposition of Nazidom upon their church an iron olive branch: "I admonish them to abandon their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
...years. His family, pure Spanish, had lived in Peru since the days of the viceroys. All their loyalties, according to Juan Leguia, were for the family. Peru existed for the benefit of the Leguias and its people were dogs, to be ruled kindly but forcibly as a gentleman would govern any other kennel. Juan Leguia was prepared for his inheritance in the chaste corridors of St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass. The family's greatest pride is the fact that for centuries its members have been hereditary colonels of the Papal Guard. Every Leguia heir at least once...
...brought I was at my summer place playing polo on my private polo field. I immediately went to my father's side in Pizarro Palace in Lima. He told me he was heartsick and discouraged . . . and was already formulating the names of those in a junta who should govern the country. One of the disloyal men in his administration spoke up to him and demanded that he should include his name on the list. I. very peacefully, hit him in the face and took him to the window and threw him out into the street. . . . This man, this disloyal...