Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the radio commentators, fearful of the rule in the 1934 Communications Act against profanity, worked hard to keep their language more sedate than the President's. Newspapers, including the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print") boldly printed the initials "S.O.B." in headlines. A phrase long taboo in newspapers had been given a kind of sanction by passing through the President's mouth; S.O.B. had become editorial S.O.P...
Also dropped is the rule that a candidate for honors, if not planning to complete a full course in United States history since 1789 by graduation, must answer a question on the United States in his general exams...
Life on a fashionable Middletown street was happy and uncomplicated. About the only rule was that a boy mustn't hang on to the back of ice wagons. "So we hung on to the back of ice wagons," says the Secretary of State, who enjoys recalling the "golden age of childhood." But Acheson could not help but bear some of the stamp of Father. No one who ever came in contact with the Rev. Edward Campion Acheson, later Bishop of Connecticut, came away without his imprint...
Chairman Rankin could afford to gloat. To make revenge doubly sweet, he had a ready-made way of forcing the House to go on record: a new rule (TIME, Jan. 10), aimed originally at obstructionists like John Rankin, which permits any committee chairman to bring out a bill after the Rules Committee has pigeonholed it for 21 days...
...Rock Island's President John Farrington, Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley and the Great Northern's President Frank Gavin are Budd-trained men. Soon a protegé will succeed him. Next August, Ralph Budd will be 70 - and the Burlington has an inflexible rule that its men must retire at that age. Budd has no intention of breaking the rule: he made...