Word: wielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What She Must Do. Personifying the authority she cannot wield, the Queen has duties that far exceed her powers, and must sign thousands of papers. She enacts laws by and with parliamentary assent, appoints judges and magistrates who act in her name,* confers titles and creates peerages. She is supreme head of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, which makes her an Anglican south of the Tweed, and a Presbyterian north of it. She is guardian of infants, idiots and lunatics (the Lord Chancellor actually does this job). If a condemned murderer should be pardoned, the Home...
Last week Tandon resigned as party president, explaining lamely that "Nehru is the symbol of our nation . . . I see no other way out." Then the All-India Congress Committee offered Nehru the scepter. At first he demurred, deeming it not proper for the Prime Minister to also wield the power of party president. Eventually, he permitted himself to be persuaded. Said he: "One should not be bashful . . . I cannot be a coward...
Bill and Randy Hearst settled into their new jobs with no comment from old W.R.'s good & great friend, Marion Davies. She was taking a rest. When she might try to wield the voting trust agreement he had signed with her (giving her control, according to her advisers), not even Marion Davies knew for sure. She waited to see how the princes run the realm, whether they want to make peace...
...Wield the Lash. As P-D city editor for 25 years, big (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Ben Reese had built up a crack staff by painstaking direction and a relentless, daily wielding of the lash on staffers who failed to give him what he wanted ("Tell him the Post-Dispatch wants to know, and don't come back without the story"). He had developed many a bannerline expose through his dogged, relentless pursuit of the smallest story clue, spent as much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen...
...planned to fly immediately to Indo-China, wield both political and military authority, which had been divided between High Commissioner Pignon and General Marcel Carpentier. A trim, tough disciplinarian, described by his colleagues as électrique, De Lattre has been chief of Western European land forces under the Brussels five-power defense union, soon to be superseded by the broader North Atlantic twelve-power pact...