Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National prestige is indeed a delicate plant, influenced by seemingly inconsequential details. Who would have thought that the use of profanity could affect the standing of nations? Yet the central committee of the Anti-Blasphemous Society of Italy urges all the Italians living abroad to abstain from profanity, in order that the prestige of Italy may be helped throughout the world...
...subject of the bill that is so utterly discouraging, however. What is disheartening is to read that the fight against its passage in the state Senate is being waged not by the people whom it would affect, but by the proprietors of drug and department stores. Their action is natural enough, but there is no reason for the apathy of the general public; it hasn't even enough interest in a bill which so clearly involves the whole theory of the sphere of government action to laugh the perpetrators of the absurdity to shame. It is allowed to take...
There is little doubt that in theory the Vice President is right. Filibustering has become a decided evil; but as long as the Senate demands its ancient right, he is powerless to affect...
...possibilities of the Court's decision, as they affect the power of the President and of the Senate, may be far-reaching. If the President has the power of summary removal, a future President might use it indiscriminately, removing even judges from the bench. If a definite consent of the Senate is needed for removal, a new check is placed on the President. Or it might be that, when the Senate approved a successor, it would, in that act, be considered to give its consent to a man's removal; and a man might be considered to continue in office...
Three bills are now before the Massachusetts State Legislature which directly affect the University, or members...