Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden death of General Kondylis eased His Majesty's position by removing the onetime Dictator who was trying to rule the King (TIME, Feb. 10). The sudden death last week of M. Venizelos profoundly disturbed the ticklish balance of power in Athens between Venizelists and the Army which is seething with ambitions for a coup d'état. As always since the War the stabilizing influence in Greece remained British influence. The millionaire widow of M. Venizelos is the daughter of a British-nationalized Greek. Another British-moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King...
...fostering of domestic disorder, there is the Polish question. Germany at no point adjoins Russia, Poland being the buffer; and Poland, the one nation of consequence friendly to Germany, is unwilling to sign. Aside from the folly of forfeiting Poland's good will by an agreement which would rule out German aid to an invaded Poland, Germany would have, by the terms of the proposed "Eastern Locarno", to face the prospects of affording passage to French troops through her territory in case of a Russo-Polish disturbance. The German people have already come into contact with French troops...
...incompatible with the Harvard theories of independence and individuality. No longer does it exercise the powers of advising student organizations concerning their conduct, of checking up on the scholastic misdemeanors of students, of guarding against evils in the conduct of athletics, or of investigating the infringement of any college rule or regulation. For one reason or other these powers have all been thrown into the discard...
...people's champions" in the Massachusetts legislature, when they placed the rule of compulsory loyalty oaths upon the faculties of innumerable educational institutions in their own state, were undoubtedly acting with the rightcous feeling that they were protecting the people against a huge impending danger. From now on teachers in Massachusetts must swear allegiance to the prevailing character of the American government and hush their thoughts on the values or the facts of all other types. Compulsory oaths of this sort are the result of an unnatural, brooding resentment among the masses against the intellectuals, who are supposedly toying with...
...driver is intoxicated. The famous definition of Judge Dewey, who later landed in an insane asylum, which stated that he is drunk who falls to the floor and cannot rise to drink some more' is adhered to by some of our magistrates, while others swing the opposite way and rule a driver intoxicated if he had had a single drink...