Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silencing the opposition, however, it served to redouble it. Consequently, what had been merely a political tug-of-war last week became a nationwide commotion ranging from a series of articles by columnist Dorothy Thompson to the effect that if the bill passed "one man, once elected President, can rule this country with a camarilla'' to a scheduled town meeting at which the suburban citizenry of the stanchly Republican stronghold of New Canaan, Conn, proposed to record their opposition to the bill this week...
...cannot become the universal policeman and patrol all the back streets of Europe and Asia. ... It is all very well to talk about the brotherhood of man, sanctity of treaties, rights of minorities and the rule of law. . . . Let us realize that our power to deal with the world as it is and the realists who inhabit it is not unlimited...
...cause emotional disturbances, Frank's teachers have made no effort to change his natural style. Unusually bright for an inversionist, Frank has an average I. Q., is a B student, is rated "Excellent" in drawing, is two terms ahead of average pupils in spelling (although inversionists as a rule are bad spellers...
...Conduct Contrary. . . ." It has long been the custom of the New York Stock Exchange to require financial statements from all member-firms doing business with the public. Late in 1937, apparently eager to beat SEC to the gun, the Exchange extended this rule to firms such as Richard Whitney's which do business with brokers and banks. First report was due on Feb. 15. With his company virtually insolvent. Dick Whitney asked for an extension of time. This naturally piqued the Exchange's curiosity. When the Whitney report arrived, the Exchange scrutinized it carefully and immediately sent...
Listeners and critics have acclaimed Biggs's playing on the Bach organ as a revelation. Its pipes, unlike those of the modern organ, are all out in the open, visible to the audience. (Pipes in modern organs are, as a rule, enclosed behind shutters; those visible to the audience are often dummy pipes good only to look at.) The Bach facsimile requires from one-third t01/20th the wind pressure demanded by a modern organ, and has a correspondingly limpid quality of tone. Unlike the modern organ it cannot increase or diminish the volume of tone. The "swell" mechanism...