Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Maud of Norway is English King Edward's aunt and nowhere has Britain been traditionally more welcome to rule the waves than off the Norwegian coast. Last week, however, Norway's Cabinet dared to take an acrimonious stand against the British Cabinet on the subject of whales, as 10,000 Norwegian sailors who normally man British-owned whaling ships not only struck but prisoned this British commercial fleet in the deep narrow harbor of the Sandefjord. As the ships lay at anchor, their funnels cold and smokeless, pale-eyed Norwegian seamen in blue jerseys leaned against lamp...
...Therefore, while it is true that in many directions democracy is selling at a heavy discount, nevertheless, I am one of those who believe that the men who rule the destinies of Europe will go very slowly in dragging their unwilling peoples into a major conflict...
...United States in effect?" His queries he answered himself: "The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Washington were suspended by one Dave Beck, head of the Teamsters' Union, and one John Dore, Mayor of Seattle. Gone is constitutional government. Gone is majority rule and the freedom of speech. Seattle is now the plaything of a dictator...
PEOPLE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!-R. H. (Bob) Davis-Stokes ($3). Travel notes of a columnist that range from brief impressions written in Mexico and South Africa to scribblings in an airplane over California, and include anecdotes about Artemus Ward, discussions of the Regency of George IV and English rule of India...
...give me birth, exceed all others in time's march. For o'er and o'er nature hath flung her treasures with a generous hand and Birmingham sits enthroned. Both hemispheres can draw on her; the mineral wealth of every land is there allied to rule the world in future years...