Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Mitchell's language appeared to shift the emphasis of the Wickersham view from the duty of states to help enforcement to a rationalized form of responsibility whereby each state would get the kind of enforcement it was ready to give. Drys were told, in effect, they could...
(Observers were puzzled by the President's emphasis on "the new flexible provision ... a long step." The new flexible provision is less flexible than the old. Previously the President could, upon being advised by the tariff commission that a rate needed altering, make any change he saw fit up...
Brazilians would not have been surprised had President Hoover vacated his White House, installed the Prestes therein. When Mr. Hoover as President-elect visited Rio de Janeiro* hospitable President Washington Luis of Brazil moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover...
The film is the product of the collaboration of all the historical societies of the state. The greatest emphasis is on the 17th century and the founding of the Bay Colony, on which all interest is centered this summer.
Mr. Wickersham's emphasis upon the importance of popular habits in determining the issue of a conflict such as is tearing the United States, if accepted at its face value, makes the struggle seem strangely futile. What actual effect would the repeal of prohibition legislation have? Those who now drink...