Word: governments
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Four rules govern the contest and are as follows: Each manuscript must be signed with a pen name and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the author's name, address and occupation. There is to be no limit to the number of manuscripts which one person may send in. Each article received before the fifth of the month will be considered for inclusion in the following issue and all material whether printed or not will be considered for the final prize which will be awarded at the close of the contest. Finally all entries must be sent to Contest Editor...
Episcopalians. Except for its close linkage to the English Government, the Church of England's organization is practically that of the Protestant Episcopalian Church in the U. S., and the Episcopalian churches of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of the British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is composed of deacons, priests and bishops. The bishops govern. No ecclesiastical authority is above them, except where, as in England there are archbishops. The archbishops, however, act somewhat as do chairmen of corporate boards of directors. They lack inherent power of command. (In the Roman Catholic Church the Government...
...Silverman '30 and Norman Winer '29, speaking in Paine Hall for the affirmative, contended that, China, having established five new codes of law, improved its prisons and reforms, and having set up a better government, was now fully competent to govern itself...
While the Representatives were meeting, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, Missouri Democrat, was busy enlisting the support of colleagues in both parties for a Missouri Plan of flood control. This plan provided for: a) five commissioners appointed by the President to govern flood control, navigation and conservation in the Mississippi Basin; b) appropriations of $100,000,000 per annum for ten years; c) a bond issue, such as built the Panama Canal and the Alaska Railway...
...uncertainly as to the future of the Philippine Islands is worse than the decision of the United States government in the matter," he concluded. "The Filipinos, not knowing what the future holds for them, are unable to develop their own genius in government. If the United States wants to continue governing the Philippines, it should do so, and should assume complete responsibility for them; if it wants the Filipinos to govern themselves, it should let them, and withdraw completely. Any midway solution breeds only trouble...