Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...declined to accept Secretary of Labor Davis's invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the coal mines if the operators sought to "continue to rule or ruin, as they see fit, one of the Nation's basic industries." In 1902, when under similar conditions President Roosevelt issued a similar ultimatum, the coal operators surrendered. Last week, the House referred Mr. Berger's resolution to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
Before a super-nationalist rally at Berlin, General Ludendorff warmed up by declaring that the Jews, the Jesuits and the Freemasons "robbed Germany of certain victory during the World War." Then, as his poise snapped, he shouted: "Even today the supernational [Allied] powers rule Germany through S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General for Reparations] and Mgr. Eugenio Pacelli [Papal Nuncio to Germany] and the Republic's head makes no use of his authority...
...created equal and should no more have equal power in politics than they have in business; it's against nature. The rule of the demagog is a greater menace to national continuity than the rule of kings. Kings sometimes did great things, helped to create great civilizations, and then died out; but they did create. Demagogs never did and never will create a great civilization...
...Permanent Secretary, two for the Permanent Class Committee, five for the Album Committee, and seven for the Class Day Committee. If a voter does not check the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that particular position will be completely discarded. This rule has been made necessary to avoid possible errors in counting the votes for the various candidates for each office. All ballots to be considered must be signed by the voters and should be marked in pencil...