Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov finally agreed that the governor should govern in concert with the assembly; that the governor should control the police in time of "emergency"; that the governor should decide when an emergency existed. In ordinary times, the Russian insisted, the police should be controlled by the assembly. Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin appreciated these concessions, but they were troubled by the idea of divided police allegiance. Under what conditions could the governor hire & fire the police chief? Mr. Molotov said that the police matter could be settled more quickly if the Anglo-U.S. bargainers would set a time limit...
...brisk leap from a weak fifth to at least a strong third among Italian parties made that Italy's No. 1 political question. The pudgy onetime theatrical producer (who looks like a jovial Eric von Stroheim) denounced Mussolini, of course, but he also said: "You cannot govern without exercising dictatorial power." His program was vague. On domestic questions it was a hash of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wallace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but with a strong flavor of Huey Long. Playing no favorites, Giannini hailed the Republican sweep in the U.S. as a victory of "the uomo...
...statement that attendance is required was actually modified by the pronouncement that "each student in good standing will have to decide for himself whether his work will be seriously affected by absence from class on that day and govern himself accordingly...
Lieut, General John R. Hodge, commander of U.S. occupation forces, declared martial law for Kyongsang-Pukto Province. Communist agitators could find receptive audiences in some sectors of the U.S. zone. Monumentally ill-equipped at war's end to occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice...
This business about the will of the people, he declared, is fictitious and mysterious. Large groups, he said, cannot govern: they can merely control by votes; and the British and American democracies are almost as aristocratic as democratic. He implied that this to him, at least, is good...