Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are exceptions which prove the rule-an occasional child does well in school. Most adults work for somebody else in breweries textile mills, International Motors' plant, and neighboring Bethlehem Steel. Few hold real executive positions...
...well, too, that we bear in mind that in all the pioneer settlements democracy and not feudalism was the rule. The men had to take their turn standing guard at the stockade. . . . The women had to take their turn husking corn...
Roosevelt: "Macaulay condemned the American scheme of government based on popular majority. In this country 80 years later his successors do not dare openly to condemn (it) . . . for they profess adherence to the form. . . . They love to intone praise of liberty, but in their hearts they distrust majority rule because an enlightened majority will not tolerate the abuses which a privileged minority would seek to foist upon the people as a whole...
...Senate Rule prevents Senators from speaking "disrespectfully" of other Senators. When Wisconsin's La Follette objected that Senator Wheeler was breaking it, he was promptly silenced and Senator Wheeler continued...
Geoffrey Dawson, almost anonymous as a public character, may plausibly be rated among the score of men (and Queen Mother Mary) who really rule the British Empire. For small Mr. Dawson is head of one of Britain's greatest institutions, editor of London's Times. The importance of the Times is something that no British Government could ever overlook. Next to what the Times itself thinks, the Government watches what readers of the Times think...