Word: encroacher
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...cannot admit the power in the Senate to encroach upon the Executive functions by removal of a duly appointed executive officer under the guise of reconsideration of his nomination...
...would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
Three reservations are attached by the French Government to its proposal: 1) the Union must be linked in harmony with the League; 2) it must never, in principle at least, be opposed to any other group; 3) the Union as a whole shall never encroach upon the rights of one of its members...
...Union, is tired of having Ambassador Herbette walk in with diplomatic notes from powers who do not recognize Soviet Russia. He was tired the first time it happened. When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy was acting for Rumania, and Rumania is anathema...
...Harvard is a liberal arts rather than a vocational college, courses should be selected for ther own value rather than for the possible benefit which they would give in the way of training one for a vocation. This the vocational director must realize in order that he may not encroach on a field that...