Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...parties in America today. The United States are now governed by two immense corporations, calling themselves the Republican and the Democratic parties. Each party, through control of the primaries by the bosses or rings, becomes dominated by cliques. For no candidates can be chosen at the primaries under boss rule except those men whom the boss allows to be nominated, and the men elected at the primaries determine the men chosen to office. What a boss has to have is the control of organized voters. With them the boss has no fear of unorganized opposition. A boss is always surrounded...
Class conflicts, race problems, bribery, ring rule and the un-American immigrant sufficiently strain our political system without the annexation of a transoceanic appendage...
...first group of offices, some special qualification generally determines the choice; in the second group, however, this rule does not apply, since a man is usually as well fitted for one committee place as for another. Hence, it has happened that the candidates for the committees have as a rule fallen into the exact places for which they were "slated." Furthermore, it seems desirable to prevent successive nominations of a man for committee places, because that practice has in the past been more subject to abuse than use. It has frequently happened just as it happened last year, that...
President E. Benjamin Andrews of Brown University, delivered an address last evening before the Graduate Club. His subject was, "Home Rule in Greece in the Fourth Century...
...Greek liberty. Demosthenes was not so great a statesman as Phocion, who foresaw that Greece needed for her preservation the unification which could only be obtained through the domination of some one state or man. Owing to jealousy among the Greek states the only salvation for Greece was the rule of Philip, and after his death, of Alexander...