Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...defense items who were not. But the debate grew hot. Ohio's Senator Taft declared: "I shall refuse to vote for any measure to draft men, and I do not propose to vote for any measure to draft property. ... In drafting men, they may be classified according to rule, and they may be drawn according to lot. However, in this case the matter is entirely within the discretion of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy. ... I say that is the most extreme delegation of authority we have considered...
Last year the Council made an exception to its no-canvassing rule to permit a Red Cross drive for funds to be made at Harvard. Presumably exceptions will be made again this year for specially urgent war-relief campaigns...
Visiting Englishmen almost invariably have a lot to say about the U. S. Almost invariably it is pretty stale stuff. Wyndham Lewis may have an advantage in being half American; in any case his America, I Presume is a bracing exception to the general rule. Some of it is obvious, some misfires, a good deal is so good it inspires keen regret that it is not a great deal better. Taken as a whole, America, I Presume can be guaranteed neither to bore nor blindfold any U. S. reader...
...used to play in pubs, giving plays by Shaw, Clifford Bax, Ivor Brown. Soon to open as the Uniform Theatre is the Garrick on Charing Cross Road, which will admit the boy or girl friend of all war workers. Encouraging theatre attendance in Brighton and Ports mouth is a rule: those who have ticket stubs for cinema or theatre are exempt from the curfew...
...biggest victory was the triumph of Secretary Hull's patient, unrelenting insistence on the rule of law and the possibility of an international order. Sometimes the speeches he has made have seemed, in view of Nazi triumphs, as old-fashioned as a torchlight parade. Last week his grave words on democratic rights and duties were vindicated, not only in terms of their expression of a cause, but in the practical sense of a measure of defense that the most hard-boiled patriot could subscribe...