Word: exertions
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Felix Frankfurter's capacity for dealing with men is the tool which has enabled him to exert the extraordinary influence with which he is rightly credited. Take, for example, his influence on the development of public law in the United States. His work has been done, not through the medium of his own books, which are few and of secondary importance, but through his stimulation of other men. Scarcely an important book has been published in recent years dealing with public law in which the author does not acknowledge his debt to Professor Frankfurter for suggesting the work...
...deplore the landing of U. S. Marines in Nicaragua, the U. S. military occupation of Haiti. I will not send troops to Cuba under any circumstances, believing that the responsibility for preserving law and order in Cuba should be shared by all American Governments alike. I invite them to exert diplomatic pressure at once to settle the turbulent state of Cuban political affairs...
...play concerns an actress (Margalo Gillmore) who is revisited by her deplorable husband, Stanley Vance (Ernest Milton), a homosexual masochist and the most despicable villain who has set foot on the stage since Simon Legree. Returning from a long disappearance, Vance begins to exert his baleful influence over Miss Gillmore, a spell from which she had just recovered. He makes her tie his shoes, hustle for his breakfast, breaks her spirit. Both her brother (kinetic Basil Sydney) and her manager who loves her (William Harrigan) have good reason to kill Vance. But the job is finally done very adroitly...
...half of all U. S. Jews there are about 6,500 kosher butcher shops. A kosher tax would be profitable, but whether the Agudath Harabonim could levy it effectively seemed doubtful. If all Jewish congregations approved it might be done by agreement with meat dealers. Or the rabbis could exert gentle pressure. Tho.ugh the rabbi does no slaughtering, which is the job of a trained and learned shochet, he or an assistant supervises it in the slaughterhouse, has the final say on what is kosher, what...
...bonds and fail to balance its budget as far as is necessary to the successful execution of its recovery and unemployment relief program. The specific result of such an expenditure of government flat would be a stimulation of physical production which would, as soon as it reached the markets, exert a downward influence on prices sufficient to offset the initial upward influence of the new purchasing power. And the elastic limit of physical production in this country is still a long...