Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional Republican respects at the tomb of the first Republican President. But Parcel No. 3 was the main show; at St. Louis Candidate Dewey had assembled the 25 other Republican Governors of the U.S. This gave him an opportunity to remind the voters that these Republicans "govern three-fourths of the American people...
...power, showed more liking for conservatives than for Communists who had given him powerful support. He lost the confidence of Chile's Popular Front, failed to gain the complete confidence of his new friends on the Right. Result: turmoil. Rios, without a political majority, found it difficult to govern at all. Chile's numerous ills, notably including a rampant inflation, grew worse & worse...
Recent dissensions further weakened his Cabinet. Now, on opening a new session of Congress, President Rios was trying to form some combination to give him firm support, allow him to govern effectively. The job did not look easy...
...last week, Britain and Canada had differed on details, but had agreed on the main principle that an international authority should govern the world's postwar airways. The U.S., fearing that any such authority would be weighted too much on the side of British and Commonwealth interests, was willing enough to agree on international standards and an international advisory body, but wanted to leave the actual administration to each country concerned. , Out of last week's foofaraw, four revealing points emerged...
Such a program will probably be more practicable for Belgium than for most of Europe. Since the day the Nazis immured him in Laeken Castle, 42-year-old King Leopold has kept his title but has refused to govern. Belgian courts have stubbornly refused to cater to the Nazis, and have kept the prewar judicial system pretty well intact (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943). Nazi exploitation and expropriation have presumably played havoc with Belgium's interior economy, left the true ownership of many properties in doubt. But even this factor-a specter of disintegration which overhangs all Europe...