Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government control, that a Fascist commissioner would dictate its programs, the selection of artists. Many there were in Italy and the U. S. who linked this news with the resignation last fall of Arturo Toscanini after nine years as La Scala director. He, it is said, foresaw the Fascist rule. He, it is known, can brook no interference with a musical enterprise under his direction...
...world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had no homeland of their own. After Allenby's last crusade had wrested Palestine from the Turk, the Balfour Declaration (1917) seemed to recognize Jewish rights to at least a share in the modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing bad feeling culminated in August with the Arab anti-Jewish riots in Palestine. Last week Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, Chancellor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, sought to pour more oil on the subsiding waters of Palestine. Said...
...requirement is not, of course, a rule saying "you shall eat 14 meals here each week." But it is a bill for $8.50 which virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must eat all your luncheons and dinners here." That is a requirement inconsistent with Harvard tradition and with English practice. It is a rule which, for the welfare of the House plan and the Harvard undergraduates, should be vastly modified. Incipient protests at Harvard and successful precedents at Cambridge both point to the importance and value of changing the announced plans, and leaving the undergraduates...
...shrewdness has been the necessity, increasing year by year, of impressing upon sensitive Central Americans that the great U. F. C., industrially dominant, is also the personal and political friend of each and every Latin American republic. Accordingly, last January, he wrote and published Foreign Trade's Golden Rule, explaining the essential economic unity of U. F. C. and the countries in which it operates. Accordingly, last week, he was vexed to find a rift in at least one of U. F. C.'s golden unities...
Perhaps the engineers of the plan were wise in keeping the mob at bay, knowing that the flattery of being allowed to join the elect would dim the judgement of the fawning majority and insure a complete subjection to the wills of those that rule...