Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelts were concerned, man-of-last-week was a 36-year-old surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Minn.-Dr. Howard Kramer ("Howdie") Gray, son of Vice Chairman Carl Gray of the Union Pacific R. R. and Harriette Flora Gray, the Golden Rule Foundation's Mother-of-the-Year for 1937 (TIME. May 3, 1937). Perennial president of his Princeton class (1923), as famed in college for his unobtrusive Christianity as for his athletic ability (varsity football end), this model son of model parents is recognized by the Doctors Mayo as their crack stomach surgeon. Because Son James...
...Self-Determination!" Orator Hitler began by attacking democratic states as being bedfellows in the League of Nations with Soviet Russia, "which maintains its rule by shootings and tortures." Only in Germany and Italy, he cried, were the people 99% behind their governments. He branded Czechoslovakia as a pseudo-democracy forcibly created by the Treaty of Versailles, and accused former French Air Minister Pierre Cot of having once said: "The task of Czechoslovakia in a future war will be to bomb the key industries of Germany...
Judge Rutherford's rambling, worldwide speech was entitled "Face the Facts." Its gist: "A hideous monstrosity is rapidly moving to rule the world by dictators and to regiment the people. God, by His holy prophets, thousands of years ago, as recorded in the Bible, foretold this great menace, its cause, and what will be the result...
...renaming Anatolian villages to suit Hittite history has long kept Turkish railway ticket sellers on the jump. When, two years ago, Dictator Kamal Ataturk first made up his mind that the 80,000 Turks of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of French-mandated Syria would suffer unduly under independent Syrian rule, he began his campaign for an autonomous Sanjak by calling the region "Hatay." While sanjak is an old Turkish word meaning district, Hatay was the still older name of the old Hittite Empire. Early this summer the Sanjak became autonomous under joint French and Turkish protection. Last week the Turkish...
Although he is a strict disciplinarian, Principal Hoxton is popular among his boys, whom he calls "Ol Bill" or "Ol Joseph." Long abandoned is the old school rule that "no student .shall sing any Negro or low song," but such practices as smoking and drinking are strictly regulated. Prime aim of the school is to turn out "Christian gentlemen." Its honor system is scrupulously enforced. The boys themselves once stoned from the grounds a student caught stealing...