Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city election, the Conservatives dozed through the Councilmen's campaign. They stirred uneasily last week when a Labor crowd in Camberwell Baths howled Conservative Newspaper Publisher Lord Beaverbrook off the platform and sang "The Red Flag." Next morning his Daily Express screamed: SHALL THE HOOLIGANS GOVERN LONDON? Meanwhile the leader of the London Labor Party, Herbert Morrison, was fighting the campaign of his life. When the votes were counted, Labor had swept whole boroughs from under the Tories, defeated such Tory front men as the Earl of Haddo and old Sir Cyril Cobb...
...also understand from what I have said why we will not receive personal aspersions. Neither will we receive attacks on the law itself because that is not a matter within our control. It should be taken up with Congress. Nor will we entertain at tacks on other departments of Govern ment or the statement of general policy laid down by the President in setting up this organization. These, too, are matters not within our control. We are here to hear of our own policies, methods, acts, errors, mistakes and blunders, and not those of anybody else over whose acts...
Barry Woods are few and far between; certain occurrences during the last few years would seem to prove that some of Harvard's football players not only have not been Woods but have not been familiar with rules which should govern all Harvard students...
...read and cogitated by the Editor after it has been selected and recommended by a trained and trusted staff member. Of the hundreds of letters received weekly by TIME, it is possible to print only a dozen or so. Those printed are chosen by the same criteria as govern the selection of news published in TIME, plus the criterion of justice: making corrections or apologies where gravely due. Never is a letter omitted or suppressed because of its writer's social, political, economic or religious views. Because of the intense interest exhibited by TIME readers in many a question...
Through Commercial Attache Maurice Garreau-Dombasle. the French Govern- ment announced that if the wine quota were doubled to 1,568,000 gal., France was prepared to quadruple its U. S. apple & pear imports to 900.000 bu. That seemed fair enough until it was learned that the thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks...