Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...order to gain attention, do the odd. This is an old and, for intellectuals, a disturbing rule of politics. Even for good reasons, doing the odd means walking a thin line between ridicule and admiration...
...interest in Nigeria shifted from people to palm oil. To get the oil, British trading companies began to penetrate the interior of Nigeria-and after them came the Union Jack. By 1903, when Sir Frederick Lugard (later Lord Lugard) began his campaigns against the Northern emirs, British rule in Nigeria was an accepted international fact. But even yet no one conceived of northern and southern Nigeria as having anything but a geographical connection; the word Nigeria itself was coined by a London Times contributor named Flora Shaw-who later became Lady Lugard. Not until 1914, when Lugard, one of Britain...
With Zik & Co. sowing the seeds of rebellion in the South, the days of British rule in Nigeria were clearly numbered. But at conference after conference, the bemused British could only sit apart and smile as the Africans themselves delayed independence by interregional quibbling. Not until 1951 did the shape of the ultimate solution begin to appear: in return for accepting a federal legislature with real power, the North would get as many seats as the East and West combined...
...missing two: Denmark (whose parliamentarians have just been through a general election) and General Cemal Gursel's Turkey, which under the rule of a junta no longer has any parliamentarians to send...
...Alpert, it also took a strong stand for tax relief. It suggested that 1) the 10% federal excise tax on fares be repealed, 2) the Federal Government should amend its tax laws to encourage states to give tax relief to the railroads, and 3) ICC should be empowered to rule unlawful any state's taxes on deficit-racked roads when they are excessive compared with those levied by other states (New York State taxes on the New Haven amount to $17,318 a mile v. Connecticut's $1,668 a mile...