Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience. Therefore. I must ask you to correct your statement regarding Sovereigns' faces on British stamps. All of the faces of British Sovereigns on British stamps since the first one was issued, in 1840, face to the left-that is, the reader's left. . . . The same rule holds true on the stamps of most of the British colonies. Some of the colonies have issued stamps showing King George V in a full face view. . . . JAMES A. DECKER...
...coincidence was noted that nearly all had seemingly valid Canadian passports. That Dominion subjects should have muscled in to this extent was surprising. That the cream of London's daughters of vice should be paying tribute to an ex-Devil's Islander able to enforce his rule by trans-Channel assassination, was downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South...
...flood of personal publicity about Benito Mussolini's aviator sons, one of the first orders of Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio broke that rule last week. The world quickly learned that leading the advance from the south were those swankest of regiments, the Genoa Dragoons and Aosta Lancers. In eight days they had covered 250 miles from Dolo to the mountain slopes beyond Noghelli. Snipers fought them every mile, but failed to stay...
...which he considered his masterpieces, which critics like Mr. Morgan and Mr. Humbert Wolfe believe have "re-created" the novel, and which few ordinary mortals ever read. Moore dedicated himself with the single-mindedness of a fanatic to the search for an "absolute prose." He imposed on himself "a rule of evenness, a rule against emotional emphasis, a refusal not only of anything that could be called a purple patch but of any conspicuous variation of tempo in response to a variation of mood...His aim was to write a prose independent of every colloquialism, every trick of phrase, every...
...Governor Eccles spoke, this time not in person but through the Federal Reserve Board, not by word but by action. Without warning, the Reserve Board boosted margin requirements from a maximum of 45% to 55%. Applying only to new purchases, not to securities already in an account, the new rule is effective...