Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rayburn is better known, partly because he is head of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee (he has no other committee assignments) and as such fathered the utility holding company (death sentence) bill. Doing so won him the approval of Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, refused to report a rule calling for a roll call on the death sentence-a roll call that would have put its opponents on the spot...
...tremendously important, but the smoke from the discussion should not obscure the goal. The need for better leadership, more honest thinking and a saner intellectual balance particularly in newspapers, is all too clearly evident to students of contemporary periodicals. Somewhere writers should be able to learn the elementary rule of journalistic navigation, that of steering their course straight between bombast and pussyfooting. In the United States a few powerful and unethical newspapers have in the past, and may in the future involve their country in wars and assasinations. The leadership of newspapers has proved at times more potent than that...
Perhaps most striking of all is the way in which this change was effected. Previous publicity of an unfortunate nature, resulting from several mishaps during the past two years, necessitated a tightening of the parietal rules. For want of a better method, the "two-woman" plan was instituted and was immediately condemned on every side. Backed by a large majority of the undergraduates, the CRIMSON came out strongly against the rule and conducted a poll to determine the exact amount of adverse sentiment...
Before bringing the interview to a close, the reporters could not resist the temptation to ask Mr. Coward's opinion of the Two Women parietal rule. In his suave and characteristically witty manner, he replied, "Why, I should think that one woman at a time should be sufficient for any Harvard student...
...quite called plain, I think. She is twenty-eight years old. She knows her own mind uncommon well. . . . She talks garrulously, but on the whole pretty sensibly. She is very open to instruction. We shall improve her. She dresses badly. . . . She has enough money to be quite independent. She rules me as only American women rule men, and I cower before her. Lord! how she would lash me if she read the above description...