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Word: ruling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have performed real services to their communities and countries. To put the matter bluntly, the Germans have had the guts to do many things which we have not had the guts to do, and as a result have badly outsold us in our own back yard. Germans, as a rule, learn Spanish thoroughly ; they not only speak it well, they have usually boned a good Spanish grammar until they know the structure of the language as well as they do their own. The average American, on the other hand, learns just enough Spanish to get along in his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...back into the control of the bosses. The destruction of the ward and its intimate relationships tends to breed indifference in the voters and encourages group interests to put up candidates of their own. These difficulties have to be reckoned with; but how they will lead to "dictatorial gangster-rule," only the vision of a Mike Sullivan can perceive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND ROUND | 11/2/1940 | See Source »

There is no assurance, however, that the law will always retain this safeguard. By merely repealing this clause, Congress can rule that registered persons henceforth inducted into the land forces of the United States shall be employed in any war in which the government at the moment, perhaps compelled by imperialistic monopoly interests or mob hysteria, may see fit to engage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

...week's end two Jews who had helped rule the land, onetime Premier Léon Blum and onetime Colonial and Interior Minister Georges Mandel, were haled before the judges of Riom as the "war guilt" trials began in earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Accents of the Conqueror | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Close to 500 local voters gathered at the school auditorium last night to hear Professor Hermen's attack against P. R. as "the best life insurance for machine voting that any one ever invented," and as "an ineffective instrument of majority rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIVAN, LYNCH RALLY PANS PLAN E | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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