Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Prohibition. ... I think it is a mixing of the National Government in a matter that should be one of local settlement. I think sumptuary laws are matters for parochial adjustment. I think it will vest in the National Government, and those who administer it, so great a power as to be dangerous in political matters...
...Federal detectives and policemen to reach into every hamlet, and to every ward, and to every purlieu of a large city, and use the leverage of an intermittently lax and strict enforcement of the law against would-be dealers in liquor and their patrons, he will wield a sinister power, prospect of which should make anxious the friends of free constitutional government...
...opening of the competition for membership in the Harvard Rifle Club was announced last night by M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31, president of the club. In May, 1929, six men will be chosen to represent the Rifle Club at the high power rifle matches at Camp Meade, as well as at the several intercollegiate meets...
...slogan. "He kept us out of the war" admitted in a speech at St. Louis, September, 1919, that a combination of manufacturers and big business men control the destinies of this nation. What foundation is there then for a belief that, should the Democratic Party be put into power, a Party which has now among its active supporters, John J. Raskob, of the General Motors; Owen D. Young of the General Electric; and William H. Woodin of the American Locomotive Company, big business will not continue its control of the government...
...Shuler, on the other hand, is playing in his last year of competition; he has been a bulwark of strength on two preceding North Carolina elevens and Coach Collins can feel sure that he will do his part in stemming the Crimson offense, from which a great deal of power and speed is expected...