Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agreeing with the Council's main points, Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, stated that "it would be outrageous if anyone were called to account for what he might say in a debate." He maintained that cadets should be trained "beyond the military rule of thumb...
Another factor was the recent and rapid Democratic upsurge in eastern Pennsylvania. In 1951 the Democrats won the Philadelphia mayoralty, interrupting 67 years of Republican rule at City Hall. In 1952 Adlai Stevenson took the city by 162,000 votes-an election freak that bewildered the experts and bothered the Republican National Committee. It should have jogged the Republicans of Pennsylvania out of their complacency, but it didn...
...Fusiliers aboard, four British warships sped to British Guiana a year ago to enforce London's decision to suspend the South American colony's seven-month-old constitution and thereby stifle its Red-infiltrated government. Since then, restive British Guiana has remained under a state-of-emergency rule by Crown-appointed Governor Sir Alfred Savage...
...Manchester Guardian: "To read it is like walking into a lamppost in the fog"), and argued that the colony's dominant political organization, the Red-ridden People's Progressive Party, was bent on destroying the constitution after first using its privileges to win unlimited one-party rule. For their activities protesting London's steps against the P.P.P., its leader, Cheddi Jagan, served five months in jail and his Chicago-born wife Janet is still in jail...
...Churchill government agreed with the commission's report, announced in Commons that the state-of-emergency rule will continue in Guiana for at least three more years...