Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy prompted Berlin newspapers to attack him as a "warmonger." For some other remarks he made about the regimentation of labor in Soviet Russia he was obliged to make a public apology. In 1939, his tour of duty as CNO completed, Mr. Roosevelt sent him to Puerto Rico to govern that hot and troubled island. The President did not pack him off to get him out of the way. Puerto Rico needed a steadying rein. It got it. The retired Admiral governed with a fair, gloved hand. A newspaper columnist nicknamed him El Lija, a Spanish play on his name...
...theory of occupation was that an Allied commission representing all four powers could treat Germany as one country under one government. On paper, the arrangement was perfect: General Eisen hower for the U.S., and Russian, British and French members yet to be named would clear all common questions, send common directives to the four sub-govern ments. The first purpose of this technically coordinated quartering was to keep Germany impotent. Wisely applied by powers solely devoted to that aim, it might achieve the purpose. But defeated Germany was something more than a nation to be held down: it was also...
Later, the Sun Goddess sent her grandson, Prince Rice-Plenty, to govern the Earth. In good time, the Sun Goddess' great-great-grandson, Jimmu, became Japan's first emperor. He commanded his descendants to bring all the eight corners of the universe under the one roof of Japan...
...months after V-E day, WPB hopes that there will be enough materials and manpower available so that the gen eral run of industries can reconvert as they please, let supply and demand govern output...
...future, workers were promised a 48-hour week, abolition of child labor, equal pay standards for men & women, medical and health benefits. Youths 18 to 20 would serve on forest and soil conservation projects. There would be Govern ment supervision of schools, and Confesor hoped that within 25 years illiteracy (reduced from approximately 90% to 51% since the U.S. took possession in 1899) could be eliminated. Water and land transportation would be socialized, and large retail cooperatives established...