Word: governs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While the Popular Front swayed, bush-mustached President Aguirre felt more & more like a man who does not govern but merely presides. He spent more & more time with the red wine he cultivates. Fortnight ago he was reported...
...sometimes sheer homicidal mania, it could have been just the excitement of the Moro harvest festivals. Or the out breaks might reflect Moro resentment against conscription or against the despised, diminutive, Christian Filipinos' (with whom the Moros have fought for centuries) settling and trying to govern in Moro territory...
While the Popular Front swayed, bushy-mustached President Aguirre felt more & more like a man who does not govern but merely presides. He spent more & more time with the red wine he cultivates. Fort night ago he was reported...
Ninety percent of the Catholic priests in the U.S. oppose 1) "a shooting war outside the Western Hemisphere," 2) aid to "the Communistic Russian Govern ment." This was the result, announced last week, of a poll taken by the Catholic Laymen's Committee for Peace, an organization of out-&-out isolationists. Although the results were undoubtedly loaded by the form in which the questions were put, the trend of the results was vouched for by the attitude of the Catholic press...
Argentina was virtually without a Government. President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz was too ill to govern. Acting President Castillo too hamstrung by the Radicals, who saw their party being edged out of the power it won at the polls...