Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congressmen it serves, Potomac Electric Power Co. deserves the handsome compliment lately paid it by the New York State Power Authority. That body called it "an outstanding case of successful private operation of a public utility." Before it subscribed to the Washington Plan in 1924, Potomac Electric was a constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained the support of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...
Even with this restriction it is apparent that Professor Haring has been in constant fear of allowing his explanations to occupy too much, and this fear has proved rather injurious to the book. For the presentation often becomes jerky and terse as the historian hurries from one episode to another, with the inevitable result of producing an account that is sometimes hard to follow with sustained interest. This stylistic difficulty somewhat mars an otherwise very valuable book...
...very much amused to see the way in which the various presidents, vice presidents and treasurers boiled up and over at your gibe in your comment on the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers. If they were as constant readers of TIME as I they would know that to enjoy a crack at Big Hearted (with other people's money) Harry Hopkins and Honest Harold Ickes we must learn to take one ourselves occasionally. Mr. Bath is as weak on hitching his quotation to the right person as the schoolgirl who thought that Laurel...
...King-Emperor from Sandringham Hall. "I am thinking of the great multitude who are listening to my voice. ... I send a special greeting to the people of my dominions overseas. ... If my voice reaches any of the peoples of India, let it bring them the assurance of my constant care for them and of my desire that they today ever and more fully realize their own place in this unity of the one family. . . . May I add, very simply and sincerely, that if I may be regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and widespread family...
...result of blind hatred and fear. The Civil War and the resulting Constitutional amendments were no solution of the racial problem. Calhoun, Yancey, and the other statesmen of the Old South probably realized more clearly than their victorious Northern opponents that when two races live together in constant contact one must inevitably rule over the other. The American Indians and the natives of Malaysia are but two examples. Intermarriage is the only escape from this rigid necessity. This solution is obviously impossible in the South...