Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas laws for homicide are lenient, providing only that in a plea of self-defense the defendant shall prove that his decision to "get there first" was reasonable. "... it makes no difference whether, in fact, real danger exists. . . ." Commenting upon the Pastor's successful charge of prejudice, Texan expatriates drawled: "Texas must sure have changed, if people down there now entertain prejudice against murder...
...Pendleton (Wellesley). In a gown a cardinal hue, symbol of University of Glasgow honors, was the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, D. D. (N. Y. U., Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Glasgow), who was there to be inaugurated as President. Whence came he to this post of eminence and ecclesiastical danger...
...Treasury," Comptroller General John R. McCarl, read diligently last week Chief Justice Taft's 55-page decision which upholds the President's power to remove all executive officials without the consent of the Senate (TIME, Nov. 1). Although none of these officials is in any immediate danger of being ousted, yet the feeling hangs heavy that they can be dismissed at the caprice or hostility of the President...
...could have the Secretary of the Treasury appoint the Comptroller General, and have the Secretary of Commerce appoint the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Constitution makers were cautiously indefinite about the unknown ground between the powers of the President and Congress. It has always been ground teeming with potential danger, but it only becomes a menace to stable government when a hostile Congress and President square off for violent combat: witness the turbulent administration of Andrew Jackson...
Chapman was followed by J. F. Barnes '27, who pointed out the danger of the individual becoming a stereotyped human being cast in a mould of governmental regulation. He attacked the American worship of majority rule, and declared that it led to the creation of a nation of beings in whom the spark of individuality was stifled...