Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia included, California Fruit Growers Exchange evolved from local marketing associations started in Southern California in the 1890's. Today growers belong to packing associations which grade and pack their fruit at cost. The packing associations belong to district associations, which in turn elect the 25 directors who govern the big central Exchange. No fruit except citrus is handled...
...explained that as Jehovah's Witnesses he and his son could not serve both Jehovah and Country. Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, count 2,500,000 followers in 34 nations (TIME, June 10). Strictly literal-minded, they believe that Biblical prophecies govern man's fate, that formalized religion, financiers, politicians and such emblems as the U. S. flag are agents of Lucifer, who is grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Leader of the sect is big, militant Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, onetime Missouri circuit judge, who campaigned...
...politicians. The number of these Britons who have declared for the League exceeds the normal voting strength of either the Conservative or the Labor Party. . . . The Labor Party ... has never been more unprepared for a contest than now. It has no effective leadership and cannot consistently fight the Govern ment on sanctions, which will be one of the chief issues of the campaign, because the Laborites themselves at their recent party conference voted almost unanimously in favor of sanctions". (TIME...
...soon installed as ruler, takes the actress as his queen, attempts to govern, and is summarily robbed of the fruits of his superiority when they are rescued by an airplane. The remainder of the show is irrelevant and rather tedious...
Rules of the International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs which govern records like Sir Malcolm's call for two runs in opposite directions, to be completed within an hour. With new tires on Bluebird, Sir Malcolm started his second run with eight minutes of the hour left. After averaging his time for the two runs, American Automobile Association officials announced the result as 299.875 m.p.h. Disgusted at having missed his objective by an eyelash, Driver Campbell said he would try again next morning. Four hours later, he was told that a bungling timer had made an error in arithmetic...