Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Means Committee for conference. The House refused, 300 to 94. Last-minute news from the White House, that President Coolidge insisted on Secretary Mellon's lower tax-cut figure, availed nothing. When the vote on passage was taken, there remained only 24 "Nays" at Chairman Green's command. "And so," as the Congressional Record says at such times, "the bill was passed...
...session because the nominal line-up of the parties is: Republicans 48, Democrats 47, Farmer-Labor 1. With two Republican seats vacant pending investigation of their occupants-elect, and with the Farmer-Laborite and at least four Republicans calling themselves "progressives," the Democrats might, had they wished, have gained command of the Senate. But the Democrats preferred to let the G. O. P. stand responsible for the Senate's deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin's LaFollette and Elaine, North Dakota's Frazier and Nye, and Minnesota's unique Farmer-Laborite Shipstead" had, prior...
...ready for signing, last week, on the massive desk of Signor Benito Mussolini. With logic, reason and curt common sense he was about to strike at a custom that is old, endearing, hallowed. Dipping a pen in ink, Il Duce dashed his scrawly autograph upon the document: a command to all Italians that they must not send to him any form of Christmas or New Year's greeting...
...British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is composed of deacons, priests and bishops. The bishops govern. No ecclesiastical authority is above them, except where, as in England there are archbishops. The archbishops, however, act somewhat as do chairmen of corporate boards of directors. They lack inherent power of command. (In the Roman Catholic Church the Government is, of course, that of an absolute monarchy with the bishops subordinate to the Pope.) Thus government among Episcopal churches is only loosely integrated, and the individual congregations conduct services much as they please...
...COMMAND TO LOVE?One of those continental trifles about the Seventh Commandment...