Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would go down in history as indeed a weak-kneed President who, within the first year of his office, should let slip from the office's authority so great a power as the one which was given the President in the Tariff Act of 1922, the power to raise or lower duties by 50% upon recommendation of the President-appointed Tariff Commission...
...Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...
...current offering at the Metropolitan, "The Love Doctor", is neither worse nor better than the ordinary run of Met pictures which is the same as saying that it provides mild entertainment of a very agreeable sort. Richard Dix as the hero, let it be said at once, is not half as bad as he can be, and in fact usually...
...Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened in some other city than Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their absence the desired amendment would easily pass. By way of pretense that this solution would be legal, the Reichspost quoted Article...
Blusteringly, Dr. Julius Deutsch, Socialist leader of the Schutzbund countered the Reichspost. "Let them try it," he cried. "Wherever Parliament is removed there will be enough democrats ready to defend the Constitution and democracy...