Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no fixed rule as to the minimum number of candidates to the Class Day board. Last year 29 seniors field petitions for the ten positions...
...Thus, the Rhee administration rests upon 80,000 fulltime, government-paid national police and some 120,000 volunteer provincial police who are paid by the towns and villages where they work, i.e., about one cop to every 100 population. In many parts of Korea, particularly in the country, police rule constitutes the government. Thus, Rhee is cautious about who controls the police organization, prefers to have two or three factions contending with one another. In the same way, he has never publicly nominated his successor, and one of the severest criticisms of this proud old man is that...
Mossadegh had apparently decided to bring his growing differences with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to a head. The Premier was convinced (with reason) that one center of resistance to his rule lay in the Shah's court. He resented the Shah's distribution of royal lands to the poor (because it provoked demands for general land reform), and wanted to ease his financial woes by cutting into the Shah's $720,000-a-year government allotment and his $2,000,000 a year from other sources...
Among those named by Davis, Author Granville (The Great Tradition) Hicks testified about his own disappointing romance with Communism. Said Hicks: "... I would go along with Senator Taft in feeling that I would not want to make an absolute rule . . . There are situations in which it would be better to let a Communist keep his [teaching] job than to disrupt the whole fabric of academic freedom." But if a Communist brought his politics into the classroom, that was something else again. The trouble with all these investigations, Hicks continued, is that the emphasis always falls on "how much" the Communists...
...Brotherhood of St. Andrew, which now has chapters in 14 countries, was founded in Chicago in 1883. It has two rules: 1) the Rule of Prayer, by which members pray daily for the spread of the Christian religion, and 2) the Rule of Service, by which each member tries to guide another into the church, following the example of St. Andrew, who brought St. Peter to Christ (John...