Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agree with all your conclusions or policies. Would not want TIME so agreeable. Like the challenge to constructive thinking it offers. Our students quote TIME like a minister his Scripture. More power...
Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
Before the Civil War, says Ritchie, "the struggle of the States was for State supremacy over Federal power in the Federal domain. Now it is for State existence against Federal transgression in the State domain." There is no longer any danger of State supremacy, but there is a very real danger of State suffocation...
This is Ritchie's issue. And the denouement for which he argues is a less precarious balance between Federal and State power, a strengthening of local governments, a subdivision of so called national problems into manageable units, "so that sectional differences and class conflicts which cannot be settled nationally will be settled locally and will disappear as intraparty discords...
Finally, Ritchie's hostility to the growth of Federal power and his loyalty to the theory of decentralization brings him into conflict with prohibition. Here his attitude differs sharply from the attitude expressed by Governor Smith in his last message to the State Legislature of New York. Smith argued that prohibition is a Federal matter; ergo, there is no reason for a State enforcement act. On the other hand, Ritchie argues--consistently with his theory of State rights--that prohibition is a matter with which the Federal Government has not legitimate concern under a truly Federal system, and that...