Word: governance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have recently described many other activities that should not be tolerated in our democracy-price rigging, unfair competition directed against the little man, and monopolistic practices of many kinds. . . . Give to me and give to your Govern-ment the credit for a definite intention to eradicate them. Give to me and give to your Government the credit for believing that in so doing we are helping and not hurting the overwhelming majority of businessmen and industrialists in the United States...
Robert Houghwout Jackson, who helped denounce "America's Sixty Families "* in the prelude to his namesake's birthday, last week took part in another preliminary in the form of a debate with Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie on the subject ''How Can Govern-ment and Business Work Together?" (see p. 32). On Jackson Day itself, Robert Houghwout Jackson modestly played second fiddle to Governor Lehman at the New York dinner, but before the dinner he made the one remark of the fiesta which may have tangible consequences. Asked whether he would run for Governor...
...sense of humor, that leading Chinese characteristic, somewhat lightened the tragedy of flight from the Capital last week. Discharged but grinning Govern-ment clerks called to each other such jokes as "See you in Sinkiang!"-thus jocularly implying that the Government may ultimately flee 2,000 miles to remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan...
Japanese G. H. Q. this week seized the Chinese Government's revenue cutters, fire boats and police launches in Shanghai waters, announced they had seized "in principle" all the Government's rights in Shanghai and would prevent any part of the metropolis' vast customs revenues from reaching Generalissimo Chiang. Chinese cable censorship at Shanghai was abolished, the Japanese not imposing this week censorship of their own. Expulsion of Chinese officials from Shanghai Govern-ment buildings was decreed. Chinese and foreigners alike were sternly warned by Japanese authorities to eschew anti-Jap-anese and pro-Communist activities...
Meanwhile, last week Socialists in many lands were distributing copies of a speech delivered on Oct. 17 in Madrid by Leftist Spain's onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, who has since been prevented from criticizing the regime which replaced him. Its contents, largely suppressed by the Leftist Government's cable censors last month, packed all the more punch because Socialist Baron had come out to report last week that in Leftist Spain there is much "dissatisfaction with forcing Francisco Largo Caballero out of the Govern-ment last May. He is by far the most popular political leader among...