Word: government
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since the War, the Govern-ment has been desiring to avoid this loss. But the Government has been prevented from disposing of its fleet to private owners because of its insistence on two things-a good price for its ships (or at least a fair price) and a U. S. merchant service to all the more important parts of the world, a thing which means maintaining a number of unprofitable lines...
Futile efforts to secure subsidies for private operators, so that they would buy ships, have practically been given up. So the question has resolved itself into how the Govern-ment can operate its vessels at a minimum loss...
...chief witness for the Govern-ment is Elias H. Mortimer, who tes- tified last year before the Senate investigating committee. He testified that he entered into an agreement with Contractor Thompson and an associate (one Black, now dead) to procure hospital contracts for them in consideration of 35% of the profits that they should make. He also declared that he had made an agreement with Mr. Forbes for an equal division of these proceeds between the two of them. He told of giving Mr. Forbes various sums at several times, paying Forbes' traveling expenses on a trip...
Since the League covenant came into force, His Majesty's Government have consistently taken the view that neither it nor any conventions concluded under the auspices of the League are intended to govern the relations inter se of the various parts of the British Commonweath...
...sayings of Jesus are not intended to be a specific code of laws to govern everyday action," he said, "but are made up of broad statements of principles through which to attack individual problems...