Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this detailed mass of technicalities emerged the solid fact that President Roosevelt's discretionary powers over Foreign Policy would be sharply limited. In his strain to prove the honest will of the Administration to keep out of war, and to prove his intent to give Congress control over Foreign Policy, Senator Pittman even went beyond the Constitution. For, under the Constitution the President cannot be ordered by Congress to proclaim a state of war. Constitutionalists held that this provision of the bill would subordinate the White House to Congress...
Describing the three commodities as "instruments of mass murder," Pittman said that the embargo as it now stands "has not stopped war" and "has not discouraged...
Waving his fists and shouting, he said--"If you want to be sincere, don't stop at an embargo but stop the shipment of things that contribute to mass murder...
...greatest single obstacle which this league must combat is an irrational and fatalistic way of thinking that is startlingly prevalent in America now," a spokesman for the group asserted. "Mass emotionalism can be checked," he said, "if the crucial issues are presented, as they arise, in a clear-cut and sensible fashion...
...turkey, Chambers maintains, is "particularly adaptable to mass production...