Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bryan III and serialized last summer in the Saturday Evening Post, showed the Admiral as a confirmed drinking man. He liked an occasional beer or Martini but his staple was Scotch and water. Admiral Halsey was quoted as saying: "There are exceptions, of course, but as a general rule, I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink...
...long ago observed a simple (but useful) political fact: the men who are capable of governing and guiding a nation are, even in big countries, a comparatively small group. Destroy them and you have decapitated a country; after that, any political gangster with a gun in his hand can rule the headless nation as he likes...
...sympathizers, however, defended the work of their spirited night owls last night. They observed that the letters in M.I.T. are all straight lines, and could be laid down with a surveyor's transit and a slide rule...
Planter Kuper reported that Communists had taken advantage of unemployment in the copra industry to incite the islanders. The movement, also called "Marching Rule" (Marxian Rule), was led by natives from Malaita Island, traditional headhunters who had been proselytized by Australian Communist servicemen. The Malaita agitators, according to Kuper, were in touch with a U.S.-organized Communist cell on Guadalcanal...
During the last month, authorities have jailed some 20 Marching Rule leaders at Harira, capital of Guadalcanal. War drums throbbed through the islands when the Marching Rulers were picked up, but most of the natives were reported to approve the arrests. Reason: Marching Rule turned out to be more oppressive than British rule...