Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, Republican bosses wanted a $6 billion bite and no buts. As their proposal hit the floor with a take-it-or-leave-it rule barring amendments. Appropriations Committee Chairman John Tabor whipped the Republicans into line. He got fervent support from Missouri's Dewey Short, who opened an attack on New Deal spending by disdaining the microphone and bawling: "I never did like to speak through a tin horn. It's like kissing a beautiful girl through a screen door...
Thus, last week, Great Britain took another and most decisive step to end her 175 years of rule in India. Britain's declaration had no strings attached. The Manchester Guardian called it "the greatest disengagement action in history...
Just look around you, Msgr. Sheen, at some of your Catholic countries-Mexico, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, etc., where ignorance, squalor, pogroms, ghettos, persecution and the Roman Catholic Church rule...
Cradle & Key. Greece, though it was tiny and poor and quarrelsome, was worth the world's worry. Under its deep blue skies people had first achieved the reasoned rule they called democracy. The Greece of 1947 was a strategic spot in democracy's worldwide, defensive struggle...
This amendment cannot be intelligently supported by those who profess belief in the political good sense of the majority in times of decision. Those who do not share this faith in the people and majority rule are less than sincere in advocating this barrier to the free choice of candidates on the flimsy grounds of a tradition--indeed, a tradition repudiated twice in four years by the voters of the country...