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Howard has also come to the fore in the past few days after being kept out of the line-up for over a week on account of illness. He was the individual star of the 1927 infield and an effective hitter of the slugger type. His batting eye has developed slowly this spring, presumably because of his enforced vacation from practice, but his fielding has been of a high order. Coady has seemingly clinched the first base position. He did not play on his Freshman team last year on account of scholastic troubles, but he has already distanced his competitors...
America moves fast. Speed has leaped to the fore of our national traits. Elinor Wylie calls it a national fever: Americans, she says, keep the pavements...
...Premier got over the difficulty by making a moderate speech. His references to the Herriot Government were fleeting: he confined himself principally to attacking the Clemenceau and Poincaré Governments, attacks which at various times brought forth cries of : "Clemenceau must be sent be fore the firing squad." "Let Poincaré take Caillaux's place before the High Court...
...some years before the power of removal again came to the fore, but it came?when Andrew Johnson and Congress were grappling at each other's throats. In 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, prohibiting the President from removing any officer without the consent of the Senate. Congress was intent on having a different way from President Johnson's way in the administration of Reconstruction measures. In particular, it wished to see Secretary of War Edward McMasters Stanton continued in office because
...evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area or not to evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area? That was the question, reduced to its simplest expression, which was to the fore in France, Britain and Germany; the rest of the world was an interested spectator...