Word: government
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excitement mounted feverishly last week as Canadians sought the polls for a general election. Canadian statesmen have been thwarted, hamstrung in their efforts to govern during the past year by a strangling deadlock between Liberals and Conservatives. Would the new election break this deadlock and give either Liberals or Conservatives a workable majority? Canadians pondered that question last week with an anxious, even prayerful, interest...
What, if any, laws govern the attraction of a dead body for a loaf of bread, scientists have never determined. One theory: the same currents that carry a body into a backwater or hole under an eddy, will carry a loaf of bread to that spot, on the surface...
...markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands to be acquired in tracts greater than 2,500 acres, the Moros grateful for self-government, would surely be more farsighted and generous. They would not shy as do the Filipinos at the thought of "exploitation" but would gladly permit U. S. corporations to acquire, besides rubber forests, huge coffee, camphor, quinine and sisal plantations as well, for which there will soon be need according...
...religion, of ethics, are very great to us Americans, and their very greatness compels, or should compel, restraint. We shall always have our Fundamentalists and our Modernists. These two are real words, and splendidly descriptive. Neither side could have been more fortunate in its name. There is something that governs the universe, and always has governed it and always will govern it, that lies at the bottom of things. The minds and hearts of certain men will always turn to that Foundation, and will distrust disturbance. There is also movement there is progress, there is change, there is dynamic...
...arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection, law can become an exact science, not in the shallow sense of fashioning statutes to govern all conceivable occasions, but in the deeper sense of boiling down legal history to its philosophical essences and distributing these, in the form of simplified, uniform statutes, through society's legislative agencies; in the case of the U. S., through the state legislatures. This is a phase of the scientific...