Word: governments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Engineer Jackson wanted to get technical, he could have rattled off any number of the bewildering rules that govern his brotherhood and the rail operators. Most of the rules were 40 years old, or older; many were outworn; many no longer made sense. It was a rare railroader who knew them all, or understood 75% of them...
Somewhat inconsistently, Vishinsky offered another definition. "After all, what is democracy if not the power of the people? . . .As Lenin said, every worker of our nation should be able to direct the state, and every cook should be able to govern. Democracy in the Soviet Union is in fact the participation of tens of millions of peoples in the government." Vishinsky does not always discuss democracy in such exalted terms. Recently in Bucharest he was asked privately how he thought Rumania would go in a completely free election between the Communist-dominated Government parties and the opposition. He pondered...
...conservative outlined the future: "If the vote is 'Yes,' the June 2 elections will bring a Communist-Socialist regime, with the Communists controlling the Ministries of War and Interior [police]. For perhaps a year the Communists will govern reasonably. When they feel they have the situation in hand, they'll start putting on the heat-limiting more and more individual rights, etc. Eventually the Socialists will crack. Half will go with the Communists, half will move to the Right. The Communists then will no longer have a majority in the Assembly. And this is where, dropping...
...Canadian would tolerate him for a minute if he really tried to govern. As a Canadian once said of an earlier Governor General: "Religious Canada prays every Sunday that [he] may govern well, on the understanding that Heaven will never be so unconstitutional as to grant [the] prayer...
...proviso that seniority would govern promotions only where employes of equal merit and ability were involved...