Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1883, President Chester A. Arthur approved a civil service rule, prohibiting any inquiry into the political beliefs of an applicant for a federal job. It was a wise and liberal provision in days when the radical fringe consisted of nothing more horrendous than the Greenback National and Prohibition parties. It remained valid during the rise & fall of the Populist, Progressive, Bull Moose and Socialist-Labor movements. Their adherents were loyal to the U.S. first, to their party second-and never to a foreign government. Not until 1939 was the rule amended, to bar those who seek to overthrow...
...Without Discrimination." One rule was firm: the U.S. would not withhold food from any peoples who were starving -not even the enemies of democracy. But, by the same token, nondemocratic nations drawing U.S. relief would not be allowed to starve the friends of democracy. Distribution must be "without discrimination as to race, creed or political belief...
...pitting of farmer against labor here in Minnesota in a divide-and-rule program has long been Republican and Farm Bureau strategy, and proposed anti-labor legislation has been particularly vicious. Farmers would like to have dollar-a-pound butter but don't want labor to get the dollar to buy it with. . . . The farm attitude expressed by the head of a large producer cooperative in Minnesota was put in these startling words: "When there is enough butter, there is too much!" Mr. Ball ought to realize that the farmers have been on a sit-down strike...
...Action. The state legislature acted quickly. A bill appropriating two million dollars for a Negro university at Houston and for an "interim" Negro law school at Austin was hastily introduced. One Senator shrilled a warning: "If we don't do something quickly, the United States Supreme Court will rule that your child and my child will have to attend school with Negroes." The bill passed...
...What means this turmoil among the nations? Why do the peoples cherish vain dreams? See how the kings of the earth stand in array, how its rulers make common cause, against the Lord. . . . Princes, take warning; learn your lesson, you that rule the world. Tremble, and serve the Lord, rejoicing in His presence, but with awe in your hearts; kiss the rod, do not brave the Lord's anger, and go astray from the sure path. When the fire of His vengeance blazes out suddenly, happy are they who find their refuge...