Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only policy which has been distinctly formulated by the administration is that relating to the civil service:- Civil Service Record for May, 1889; Bishop Potter's address and interview, Boston Post, May 1 and 2; Nation, March...
Last evening Sever 11 was well filled by an audience who listened to Professor Cohn's lecture on "The Centennial of the French Revolution," The speaker said that owing to the frequent changes in government during the past century, the French nation was often accused of fickleness. This was a false charge for these uprisings are due to the most remarkable steadfastness. A nation which has passed through a third baptism of blood, while struggling towards its constant goal in spite of the hostility of a whole continent, shows a heroic firmness. It is a remarkable fact that...
...expiate her crime of allowing so many centuries of evil government. But now at last she is free. It is not a prince of the royal blood, but a man made famous by the movement for liberty, who is now the ruler of the country. The nation has finally reached the goal toward which it has been struggling, and is only the more fixed there for her agonies. Social as well as political lessons have been taught by the Revolution. The government now recognizes the necessity of education for the masses of the people, and is spending money freely...
...Civil Service would be benefited by the change:- Nation...
...give rise to serious complications. e. g. (a) When the president or either house were of different political parties; (b) when the conduct of the cabinet becomes objectionable to congress, but is sanctioned by the president:- Pomeroy's Constitutional Law, pp. 121-22; Wilson's Congressional Government, p. 269; Nation, vol. 16, p. 233; Nation. vol. 28, p. 243; speech of Mr. Thayer, thirty-eighth congress, second session...