Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four nights before the election, Governor Smith remembered something. "All during this campaign," he said, "I have not had an opportunity to say something that I want to say now that I am home, and that is to extend congratulations, great good wishes and heartfelt gratitude to my running mate on the ticket, Joe Robinson of Arkansas. He is a man of extraordinary ability, great capacity and a man of wonderful experience. He has used every bit of the last six weeks working night and day in the interest of the success of the Democratic ticket...
...sure, that was the question before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for decision; but the question before the Governor was the broader one raising the issue of actual guilt. For the very purpose of the pardoning power vested in the governor is to enable him to extend executive clemency to innocent men and women who have been convicted after a fair trial. If the governor and his commission confined themselves to inquiring of the jurors whether they and the judge gave Sacco and Vanzetti a fair trial, it would seem that the executive power was used merely to confirm...
...Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the Government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts...
...bill in question had been prepared, he said, to enable the Government to extend assistance to clerical missions in the far flung French colonies. Their work was of the greatest value in coordinating a Colonial Empire so vast that it is the second largest in the world. The Cabinet as a whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed...
Should Bulgarian school teachers don uniforms varying in color according to the teacher's rank? Should, for instance, a headmistress wear royal purple, a primary school teacher baby pink, a teacher of science electric blue? Should the uniforms extend below the knee...