Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carefully separated trilogy of American government, built in three concentric spheres, there has generally been little friction between the two inner bodies, local and state control, while the latter and the federal administration have rubbed each other the wrong way violently enough to form a strong issue in campaigns a century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously...
Iowa. Re-elected Governor John Hammill of Iowa helped keep supposedly embattled farmers in line for President-Elect Hoover. Having talked with Nominee Hoover on the latter's journey west. Governor Hammill took airplane, flew to Des Moines, told Iowa's Legislature that Mr. Hoover would certainly solve the farm problem (TIME, July...
Responsible to the Central Executive Committee are the Political Council and the State Council. The former is a propaganda and political strategy bureau. The latter is unique; but may be called a super-cabinet. The President of the State Council or super-cabinet is Marshal Chiang Kaishek, who is by courtesy "The President of China...
Turning back to a page of Fifteenth Century history, one may read the famed Bull of Pope Alexander VI, whereby "The New World" of the Americas was pontifically divided between the most Catholic sovereigns of Spain and Portugal-the latter getting Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently...
...South, Dunster, Winthrop and Holyoke streets, with the basement and first two floors containing for all indoor sports but basketball. The top story was to be a large open floor with room for three practice basketball courts, or one game court. Space was provided around the sides of this latter court for temporary stands which would seat 2,000 spectators...