Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...POWER Laguna Beach, Calif...
...going to battle under a self-defense plea. Senator Borah admitted that the treaty in no way prevented such a possibility. "A nation must answer to the tribunal of public opinion as to her right to go to war," said he. "The only censor of her action is the power of public opinion...
...Rome the swashbuckling soldiers of Pope Pius IV were savagely attacked and soundly defeated by troops of King Vittorio Emanuele I. Momentous, this defeat was suffered in 1870. Ever since the Papacy has been without temporal power, the Pope has remained "The Prisoner of the Vatican." Last week there were signs, however, that the old feud between Church and State is soon to be composed. Today the numeral of Pope Pius is not IX but XI, and that of King Vittorio Emanuele is not I but III. The case has become plainly and simply one of "two other fellows...
...Correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot of the New York World thought that he had ferreted out truth. According to his long explicit cable the Tardieu "Program of Realization" will be put through by flaunting the "American" slogan "Prosperity!", and will feature creation of a National Economic Council with extraordinary power to act in stimulating French production and commerce. Hitherto the notorious bickering of French politicians has hamstrung many important measures of a purely economic sort. According to M. Dosch-Fleurot, the proposed National Economic Council would have right of way over Parliamentary bickerers in many important respects...
...Fifth Symphony in C minor, op. 67, is deservedly popular because it is so human; a translation, in fact, of life itself into the glowing language of music. Beethoven's emotional power was so deep and true that, in expressing himself, he spoke, like every great philosopher, poet or artist, for all mankind. Which one of us in his own experience, has not felt the same protests against relentless Fate that find such uncontrollable utterance in the first movement? Who, again, is untouched by that angelic message, set before us in the second movement, of hope and aspiration, of heroic...