Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stratagems peculiar to Benito Mussolini, most typical is what he calls "changing the guard." A Finance Minister at the zenith of successful budgeting is abruptly returned to his private business, as was Count Volpi. A national hero like Atlantic-soaring Italo Balbo is swept off to rule an African province. Last week such a jolt came even to one of the "Four Men," the original Quadrumvirs who led the March on Rome while Mussolini gave orders from 400 miles away in Milan...
...peons by last month. He had given them some land and some justice, had made a personal tour of the back country, patting babies and cattle, drinking many a glass of cow's milk and goat's milk. But the one thing a Mexican President needs to rule his fermenting country is abounding, virile health. Last week, surrounded by enemies, President Cardenas to his disgust felt sick as a dog. Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because British Navy men stationed in the Mediterranean once got it from the milk of Maltese goats...
...render them incapable of separation from such parts of the Act, if any, as otherwise might be valid. . . . Invalid parts of a law may be dropped only if what is retained is fully operative as a law. In the Public Utility Act, invalid provisions are the rule rather than the exception." New Dealers insisted that the Baltimore case was an unfair test of the law because all parties to the dispute and their lawyers are connected in some way with the utility industry. What the Administration wants is a clear-cut case of the U. S. versus a holding company...
...natives who had no chiefs, did not realize that they were psychologically incapable of comprehending the meaning of complex religious rites. Yet the technique of administration constantly improved, until by 1697 an unarmed priest could make peace with a powerful tribe in Central America, bringing 80,000 under the rule of Spain almost without loss of life. In some respects the priest's diplomatic problem was almost as great as the one Cortes settled with fire and sword. He was compelled to deal with a native king whose subjects wanted war and with Spanish soldiers who were no more...
...students in the graduate schools ceased to be eligible by agreement between Harvard, Yale, and Prince changes which brought about the modern game. President Teddy Roosevelt had a ton. In 1906, also, the pressure against the game resulted in revolutionary rule hand in the changes which were: 1. the distance to be gained was changed from five to 10 yards in four instead of three downs; 2. The onside kick was permitted; 3. The first man to receive the ball from center was allowed to run with it; 4. The forward pass was sanctioned; 5. The neutral zone was added...