Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President wrote a letter to The National Aeronautical Association that was meeting in Washington last week, and suggested that an international air conference and exhibition be held next year to celebrate the silver (25th) anniversary of "the first flight by man in a power-driven heavier-than-air machine . . . made by Mr. Orville Wright, one of our fellow citizens...
...country. Our Ambassador to France . . . was represented by one Sheldon Whitehouse, who promptly put detectives on his [the Mayor's] trail to try and get something on this Mayor who was a member of Tammany Hall, a political body not in sympathy with the party in power here in our own America...
While Mr. Vare sat truculent and Mr. Smith looked strained, Senator Norris of Nebraska recited their histories with icy precision.* Then Senator Borah affirmed the Senate power to judge them. Senator Borah argued, however, that before judgement was passed, the Senate must recognize the culprits' credentials from their states; must seat them, hear them and then cast them...
...debate was a paradox. Republicans, for once, argued for states' rights while democrats exalted the Federal power. South Carolina's flowery Blease was the only Democrat who became loudly alarmed over a precedent which might some day return to plague Southern gentlemen charged with smothering the Negro vote...
Fooled. "We are finding that women can be fooled as well as men. Suffrage was opposed by the moneyed interests because they thought women would favor humanitarian legislation. That was before the time people realized the power of concerted propaganda. . . . Now we are victims, with men, of the insidious influences of the capitalistic element."? Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone but no Lucy Stone Leaguer (to preserve maiden-names...