Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India Company, the British Civil Service has always drawn intelligent, widely trained graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Diametrically opposed in principle, the United States has demanded men of highly specific education directly fitted for one particular pigeon hole. The result has been that Britain's public servants as a rule have been men of broad administrative capacities, far-seeing and able; ours, on the other hand, while sometimes competent in their own narrow field, have not possessed the breadth of view necessary to make really useful public officials...
Victory. So ended last week the rule of the political machine that Huey Long built-though not until May 14 will Sam Jones become Governor. It ended after a day of quiet balloting that gave Sam Jones 283,384 votes, Earl Long 263,443. But far bigger than the 20,000-vote margin was the anti-Long victory. In the Legislature, where there had been no opposition since 1929 ("I can buy and sell legislators," said Huey Long, "like sacks of potatoes") only 37 of 100 members were returned Longsters...
...sabre, Bob Batt, Wynne Alberts, and Cal Williams will start, with Tom Wright in reserve. Tom is really an ace sabreman, but academic difficulties will rule him out after this meet, and Rene wants to give the others experience...
...banquet at which new members are initiated. When a Porkie marries, fellow Porkies always gather round him after the ceremony and sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded. In the last 20 years only five men have been excepted from this rule: the Prince of Wales, Al Smith, Herbert Hoover, under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill and onetime Budget Director Lew Douglas, who were wined & dined in the club...
Further: "The land of Europe's middle, the mediator between North and South, East and West, has no mission to rule, but the more profound and noble mission to unite and reconcile...