Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Professor-designate Brüning today bears a few traces of the days when, from his offices in Radziwill Palace, he governed all Germany. A Catholic who entered the Reichstag as a Centrist Deputy some years after the Republic was set up, Dr. Bruning accepted the Chancellorship in 1930 from old Paul von Hindenburg to stave off and compromise with what the President then regarded as the Nazi Menace. In his two stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag...
...democratic principle is that the majority has the right to govern and that the minority has the right to criticize and oppose the majority. . . . The majority of today shall not put chains on itself and on all future majorities any more than it shall make people of a particular color slaves. It shall not accept a dictator...
...before a relatively small band of rooters, is to merit the award that is given to football, which thousands gather to witness, or crew, for which a half of Wall Street goes on a regular Roman holiday, clearly some other consideration than the excitements and the crowds seems to govern the selection of sports for the major...
...when President Roosevelt asked Congress to revive U. S shipping, Joe Kennedy was the nationally acclaimed chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, the New Deal's most successful reform to date. Last summer Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Act, authorizing a five-man Maritime Commission to govern U. S. shipping as the Interstate Commerce Commission rules U. S. land transport. Mean time, Joe Kennedy had resigned from SEC because he wanted to see more of his wife and nine children. Last week President Roosevelt again dragged Joe Kennedy out of private life to head the Maritime Commission...
Matches between blind wrestlers differ from ordinary matches only in that they start with both contestants in contact with each other at the centre of the ring, instead of in their respective corners. Ordinary interscholastic rules, which forbid flying tackles, govern what happens thereafter...