Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the climax of the most exciting convention battle the A. F. of L. ever saw. Year after year a stand-up match had been predicted between progressive John L. Lewis and the conservative boss rule of placid President William Green and his omnipotent majority on the executive council. This year at last both factions stepped openly into the ring for the first time. Of the five rounds fought, John L. Lewis won two, lost two, tied one. This record, however, did not indicate the full extent to which the contest had increased Miner Lewis' stature...
...every ounce of prestige they can in the eyes of British voters, His Majesty's Government were booming along early last week with nearly 500,000 tons of war boats in the Mediterranean and with the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill making a banquet speech in such elated Rule-Britannia vein that he woke up the next morning to say: "I do not think we should go about striking these attitudes. There might be a terrible cost for these fine gestures...
...essence, this was the keynote of Britain's Victoria more than half a century ago. The great Queen, with her pride in British valor and her joy that backward peoples should have the benefit of British rule, has a superficially different but basically similar counterpart in the Dictator of 1935, with his rousing trumps to Fascist valor and his real conviction that Ethiopians are savages who can properly be brought under Italian rule...
...Dairen to draw up a "new policy" toward China. Unless Chiang's Nationalist Kuomintang Party starts acting as if it were really pro-Japanese, Japan, according to the four major generals, will feel obliged to detach China's five rich northern provinces from Nanking's rule, set up puppet governors and collect revenues...
...stockholders of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp., fourth largest producer of fertilizer in the U. S., started fighting in the summer of 1932, have been at it ever since. One rule of their game appears to be that the president of the company always loses. There have been three presidents in the last three years, and there will probably be a fourth next month. Another rule is that Director George S. Kemp always wins. In Richmond last week Virginia-Carolina stockholders elected a new directorate. One set of candidates was headed by Director Kemp; the other by President Alphonso Lynn Ivey...