Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing that Democrats and insurgent Republicans were planning to alter this so-called flexible clause* so that Congress instead of the President should receive the Tariff Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus...
This carries out the idea expressed three years ago in the pamphlet entitled "The Harvard Law School: Its History. Its Development. Its Needs." There it was said. "There are many signs that our law is on the eve of a period of creative activity analogous to the two classical creative eras in our local history the 17th century, which made the feudal land law of mediaeval England into a system which could go around the world in the 19th, and the time just after the Revolution when English Institutions and English legal doctrines were made over to conform...
...great was the to-do because the primary was the acknowledged battle for political supremacy between Boss William Scott Vare (three years elect, but not yet seated as a U. S. Senator) and Mayor Harry A. Mackay, once Vare's campaign manager, last week his rival. On the eve of the primary Miss Beatrice Vare coming from the Senator's sickbed broadcast over the city...
Perhaps his best-known work is "America Comes of Age," but his other writings, "England of Today," "Democracy in New Zealand," "Canada--the Two Races," "Political Picture of Western France under the Third Republic," and "Two Months in America on the Eve of the War" have created considerable interest...
...Sunday night, on the eve of the meeting of the Republican National Committee President & Mrs. Hoover entertained potent Republican politicians: Colonel & Mrs. Rentfro Banton Creager of Texas (see p. 48), Louis Kroh Liggett of Massa- chusetts, Dr. Work...