Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon all delegates were busy plowing through 500,000 wards of research material provided by the League Secretariat. No delegate has any power to act for his Government. All are met for full and frank discussion...
...enterprise. Therefore, Dr. Schacht informed the German bankers, they must undertake to reduce their loans to market speculators, not by raising their rate of interest, but simply by refusing to lend to other than productive businessmen. If they would not cooperate. . . . But Dr. Schacht knew that they would. . . . His power as President of the Reichsbank, backed by the possibility of Government-sponsored legislation, was not to be thwarted. Soon the banks announced "voluntarily" an arbitrary reduction of all loans to market operators of 25%, with further progressive reductions to follow. Like a pricked bubble, the market burst. The average decline...
...insane." The "sane" are simply that large, vague mass of humanity which neither rises sufficiently above the normal to attain "genius" or sinks sufficiently below it to become the object of restraint. The action of so-called "mental diseases" may either benefit or harm humanity, may bring the "diseased" power and wealth or lead to the madhouse...
...Senator had told Mr. Sullivan that no other influence had molded his (the Senator's) character and career so power fully as McGuffey's. Mr. Sullivan ventured to say that many of the Senator's 95 colleagues would feel the same way if quizzed...
...Even those who hold the crudest ideas of divine justice can scarcely conceive it as operating only up to a certain contour line of elevation. It seems so natural for water to run down hill and to seek its level that those who look for manifestations of the power of God only in the wholly inexplicable are hesitant to include this cataclysmic but rather natural event in the category of 'acts of God.' The conception of a God who acts through the orderly operation of laws rather than by arbitrary acts of will in defiance of them...