Word: governs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reform, you have usurped our sovereign . power by curtailing the Bill of Rights, by short-circuiting the states, and by placing in the hands of a few men in executive commissions all the powers requisite to tyranny; and we, the people, say to you: we do not want monopolistic government, any more than we want monopolistic industry. Give us back the powers that our forefathers declared to be ours; liberate us to govern ourselves...
...January 1947, his voice may carry far in the Great Debate. Last week The Progressive, official weekly organ of La Follette's party, complained of "the almost frenzied haste with which the Administration is driving for establishment of the international agency which will permit the great powers to govern the world...
...Senate, Michigan's sober Arthur H. Vandenberg mulled the question that will perplex the U.S. for months to come: "What shall we say ... to govern our own American delegate when he is called upon finally to vote in respect to the use of force . . . without the constitutional concurrence of Congress? That will raise a very interesting question. ... It cannot be settled at Dumbarton Oaks. It cannot be settled by any international conference. It is nobody's business but ours...
Last week there were unmistakable signs that not all Poles recognized the right of the Lublin government to govern them. Polpress, the Lublin government's new semiofficial press agency, reported violent resistance to Lublin's efforts to draft its new army, assassination of officials who tried to enforce the decree. Lublin blamed "internal delegates" of the Polish Government in Exile for these "gangster attacks," threatened them with "the full rigor of the law." "All good Poles," said Polpress, greeted the draft with enthusiasm...
Most of his colleagues in the Provisional Government, still unrecognized by Britain and the U.S., had come up from Algiers to help him govern France and the world's No. 2 empire, most of it still in French hands...