Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Military Intelligence, Naval Intelligence and Secret Intelligence services of His Majesty's Government are separate. Under a Foreign Office rule, if an official paper is found to contain references to their doings, that paper is destroyed and a new one made and entered. Last week the British Embassy in Washington officially and the U. S. State Department informally denied that Sir Robert Vansittart is Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, affirmed that they do not know...
...historic Spanish question of Catalonia, always violently separatist, the Generalissimo said: "Catalonia is as much a part of Spain as Lancashire is a part of England or Pennsylvania is a State in the Union. The world already knows something of the terrible suffering experienced by Catalonia under Red rule, of the destruction of private property and the murder of thousands of peaceful, harmless citizens for no other crime than their ideas or their respectability...
...work, a basic reform is needed in the election to House committees. Today, like independent states, the Houses choose their representatives by whatever system happens to appeal to them. But if the House committees are to be a springboard for jumping into the main Council, home rule will have to give in, and a uniform and standardized system for handling the franchise substituted instead...
...only leg the college has to stand on in keeping this rule on the books is the doubtful postulate that a man will absorb more by osmosis in four years than he will by continued application in three. The surprising minimum of effort expended by some students tends to refute this belief. The point here is that many students do not seize the opportunity provided for true education at Harvard, and would not if the period were extended form four to forty years. These men do only the required forms of work, and the time they wish to take...
Many undergraduates have urgent reasons for wishing to do the normal, allotted work as quickly as possible. In their paths is thrown the stumbling block of the extra rule, without apparent regard for the most ordinary principles of justice. A flexible educational; program must consider the differing demands of various intellects, and eliminate rigid and ill-considered restrictions...