Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True, Mayor Herminio Rodríguez still wore a holster on his hip. But he packed no gun. The holster was a good place for carrying a carpenter's rule, a screwdriver, a pair of pliers. Explained Mayor Rodríguez: "Mexico is a law-abiding country now, and it isn't necessary for anybody to carry...
Like the young people of most strict faiths, the new generation of Mormons shows a tendency to drift into unorthodoxy. Many rebel against the old rule against liquor, tobacco and coffee. The number of backsliding "jack-Mormons" is increasing...
...minimum of veracity." Sir Joseph Davison, Grand Master of Orangemen, went even farther in the direction of peace. He left all mention of Catholics out of his written speech, and merely interpolated a verbal warning: "And we must ever be on the alert against the threat of rule by Popery...
...valo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
...Regatta was the victory of 20-year-old Philadelphian John B. Kelly Jr. In the same race 27 years ago, Kelly's father, a champion Olympic sculler, was denied the right to compete because he had once done manual labor (as a bricklayer during a college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight lengths ahead of Norwegian Carl Fronsdal, said...