Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be able to form a government stayed in the background. Ahmed Gavam had stepped down from the premiership six months ago under attack from the Russians (for the Majlis' failure to give them oil rights) and from fellow Persians (on charges of graft). He decided to take a rest, flew to Paris. Without the 70 to 80 votes which he controlled in the Majlis, neither Hajir nor anyone else could govern...
...Prince." He regards the world primarily as "a market which the combined power of high-pressure salesmanship and cheap mass production will open to him . . . Massively energetic in action," skeptical of theories, he considers most politics as "a wanton interference with the natural laws by which businessmen govern society...
...Forest also knew the Southern admiration for virility: "If you will fight, if you are strong and skillful enough to kill your antagonist, if you can govern or influence the common herd ... if you stand by your opinions unflinchingly, if you do your level best on whiskey, if you are a devil of a fellow with women, if, in short, you show vigorous masculine attributes, he will grant you his respect...
...Syrian and Lebanese armies into Palestine by May 1. Said Jamal el Husseini, No. 2 man to Abdullah's old rival, the Mufti: "When we have won, the Legion will return across the border. Then we will hold a plebiscite to determine who will govern the new Palestine." Other Arabs were not so sure that, once he had taken all or part of Palestine, Abdullah would give it up. In their extremity, they were willing to take that chance...
...individuals. He liked our working class and in the first days of our February revolution spontaneously went with them. His speeches from those days were very clear and very radical and, I must say, surprised many of us. His "I go with the people" and "With this new government I am going to govern with gusto" leave no doubt about their meaning. Then the crisis came. His reason told him that he went perhaps too far according to his previous political views. The revolution necessarily was accompanied by much profiteering and injustice which Masaryk loathed so much. Then came...