Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest his constituents doubt the sincerity of this statement, wily Manuel Quezon took another way of expressing his change of tactics. A firm rule of Filipino etiquet is that when a superior places a cigaret between his lips, a subordinate must quickly strike a match to light it for him. President Quezon is accustomed to having half a dozen of his Cabinet members pop up on their feet every time he takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained...
...Much as he has found personal comfort and inspiration in parting with liquor, the publisher of The Globe and Mail is not attempting to make himself a judge of other men. He has no desire to legislate for mature manhood under the prohibition rule. He is tolerant of every man's personal rights. He will serve a drink at his home to a guest of the age of discretion, if it is desired. By the same token he will use his utmost resources to spare the growing youth of this country from the pitfalls of alcohol. This, he believes...
...Poland last week, where a ten-day farmers' strike followed by further protests against the dictatorial rule of Poland's boss Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, has piled up an impressive casualty list of dead and wounded (TIME, Sept. 6), the revolting farmers found an unexpected ally. From the obscurity of his self-imposed exile in Merges, Switzerland, 76-year-old Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski cracked out a manifesto...
Although he discovered this fact belatedly Publisher Knox acted in haste. In doing so he broke an unwritten rule: no AP member complains about policies publicly without first mumbling his grievances before AP's board of directors. But the Knox distaste for calumny was well-fed while he stumped for Alf Landon during the grueling days leading up to last Nov. 3, and he had acquired an acute distaste for all those whom he considers journalistic scavengers. In addition the Colonel is known to boast that 75% of his wire news is selected from the United Press, a well...
...rule out the unfit is to dismiss them, and N. A. L. U. President Theodore M. Riehle announced that 66% of the membership had pledged themselves to do so. In the past year there were 3,000 such dismissals. A more constructive plan was offered by Vice President Henry E. North of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. who announced the establishment of a $30,000 co-operative fund for underwriter education through the American College of Life Underwriters. Purpose: "To organize and make available in an organized manner the information which men heretofore entering the business have had to pick...