Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Commons to have no power to pass any act altering the Constitution or the powers of the House of Lords...
...Britain has two just-completed 35,000 ton capital ships, the Rodney and the Nelson. The U. S. has no ships of equal fighting power...
...Responsibility for carrying on the Government falls upon the majority in the Dail. It is not my duty nor within my power to provide them with a means of escape from that responsibility...
German Attitude. Since Seymour Parker Gilbert holds almost autocratic power in the field of Reparations, no German statesman dared to challenge his report last week; but at the Finance Ministry newsgatherers were guardedly informed The Government sees little opportunity of effecting the economies called for by the Agent General of Reparations...
...better than most," which is no panegyric. There are two impecunious fellows who masquerade in Lower Falls, Mass., as captains of industry. They are soothingly played these hot days by Andrew Tombes and Russell Mack. During their pretentious sojourn in the small town they become involved in a water power deal of large proportions, and love. The comedy consists of scrambling out of the mess of presumptions on the day of reckoning with a whole face and heart. From this the reader may have guessed that the show is based on James Gleason's onetime farce vehicle, Like...