Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interdicted by the Constitution from meddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. . . . But it is only proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe a day ... of praying. That is, I should indirectly assume to the United States an authority over religious exercises, which the Constitution has directly precluded them from. . . . Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents...
Responsive to White House proddings. District of Columbia officials last week strove manfully to make the capital the model dry city of the land. A month had passed since Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska had gladdened President Hoover by "raising the question" of the President's direct responsibility for law enforcement in the District of Columbia, where he is the chief municipal official (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week's developments in Washington's dry war included...
...four head proctors and S. L. Batchelder '31, chairman of the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs, exercise general supervision over the activities of the class, but the eight newly appointed officers, together with Batchelder, constitute a temporary executive board of the Class of 1933. As such they will direct the affairs of the Freshmen until class officers are elected after midyears...
...conviction of Fall as a bribe-taker, the first conviction to be obtained by the U. S. on direct evidence of the naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile robe, his black New Mexican sombrero in his lap. His eyes were stunned, blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow...
...Other new singers will be Sopranos Florence Macbeth and Thelma Votipha. Tenor Theodore Strack (Hungarian) and Basso Carl Bitterl. Conductor Frank St. Leger and Tenor Theodore Ritch have been re-engaged. Naurent Novikoff, onetime partner of Anna Pavlowa, will direct the ballet school...