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The infield will also be slightly below full strength this afternoon because of the absence of shortstop Ed Krinsky. Krinsky pulled a hamstring sliding into third against Tufts last week, and will not be able to play for three weeks. Taking his place will be sophomore Bones Mackinney.
Congress already has plenty of power-to investigate, to withhold funds and to legislate-and to give Congress any further power (say, in the matter of foreign policy) would not only hamstring the executive branch in its day-to-day handling of foreign affairs, but would also upset the balance...
This week the U.S., quietly and in measured tones, is in the midst of a constitutional great debate. Ohio's junior Senator, Republican John William Bricker, touched it off by proposing a constitutional amendment. Its main aim: to restrict the making of U.S. domestic law by international treaty. Earnest...
Bad Precedent. Such a manifesto, the President explained, amounted to a U.S. threat to friends and foes alike in the U.N. Cutting off funds, moreover, would be tantamount to U.S. withdrawal from the world organization, a precipitate act which might destroy the U.N. It might establish a bad precedent, too...
As Senator Bricker and those who support his proposed Constitutional amendment burrow into the basic law, they commit the United States to perpetual international conservatism. Bricker's proposal to limit presidential powers of treaty and agreement would hamstring our future in world government and injure immediate cooperation with allied nations...