Word: gov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GOV'T vows 'BLOODY' REVOLT IF PEOPLE GAIN
...disclosed widespread corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director of vocational rehabilitation at the State Penitentiary...
That criticism of reading applies pretty much through the section. Gov. 135, the Party Government course--not being given this year or next--has been handled by various people pretty well, but the reading is the same old stuff you got in Government 1. Lambie's municipal government course features dull, solid lectures, as do Hanford's offerings...
Aside from Friedrich's Gov 106, the theory side of Government in conducted at a less intense level. Professor Wright's course in American Political Thought has been temporarily abandoned with the professor's departure; but this is no great loss. Far better courses are given by Professor Beer, a stimulating lecturer and one of the bright young men of the Department. Both his classes in Comparative and Parliamentary Government are well worth taking...
Most noted of the charges of Communism--at which Shapley scoffed, "Of course not!"--came from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who denounced the conference as "an elaborate effort to disguise a Communist propaganda effort...