Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in London, Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain barely deigned an allusion to the phrase "world revolution" while assuring the House of Commons that Britons were adequately protected in Shanghai. When a certain newsgatherer popped a question about "world revolution" at U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, in Washington, it was reported that he "seemed annoyed, but not more nervous than usual." Finally, the Federal Council of Churches, most heeded mouthpiece of U. S. Protestantism expressed "sympathy for the Chinese people...
...dominating mien, not a comradely Bolshevik backslapper. He has publicly disavowed Bolshevism; and he is much more dangerous to the Great Powers than if he were a Bolshevik. His purpose is to accomplish, by any means (including Bolshevism where prudent) all that is implied by the threadbare but kindling phrase "China for the Chinese...
...State Legislature of New York, last week, onetime Assemblyman Eliot Tuckerman presented Morris's letter, and a petition.* The whole question of the constitutionality of the 18th Amendment and the Prohibition law, hinges, he pointed out, on the interpretation of one phrase in the Fifth Article of the Constitution, stating: "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution...
...Supreme Court of the U. S. in its first Prohibition decision ruled that the phrase "two-thirds of both Houses" meant two-thirds of a regular quorum in each House;† the Prohibition Amendment was legally passed under this ruling. But to Senator Uriah Tracy, Gouverneur Morris wrote in 1804: "The idea that two-thirds of the whole number of Senators and of the whole number of Representatives are required by the Constitution to propose an amendment is certainly correct." Under this interpretation, the Amendment would not have passed Congress in 1917; the present Prohibition law is clearly unconstitutional...
...able to pay license fees of $1,000 per table. The same assembly and senate were caught napping-or so they said-in the small hours before adjournment, by a slick lobby of lawyers and hotelmen, who got a committee to change "six months" to "three months" in that phrase of the Nevada divorce statute which prescribes how long divorce-hunters must reside in Nevada. Irate legislators who snored through the reading of the new bill, which both houses passed within ten minutes, swore they thought they were only voting to add insanity to the grounds for a Reno divorce...