Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill enjoining the Trade Commission from enforcing its orders should have been dismissed by the District of Columbia Supreme Court, jurisdiction lying not with the courts but with the U. S. Attorney General. The decision, limited to the technical question of jurisdiction, leaves the Trade Commission's power still undefined, furnace-makers no wiser...
...Germany, not the Emperor, desired or brought about the War, but Frenchmen's desire for revenge, Russia's passion for power and England's mercantile selfishness. I recommend to you the books of Professor Barnes of Northampton, Mass., the speeches of La-Follette, of Senator Owen and many others...
...State, as guardian of Capital and Labor, will exercise its power through units called Corporations, acting as its agents...
...effort to clear the air, Premier Wakatsuki attempted to secure approval from the Imperial Privy Council to extend enormous credits from the Bank of Japan to save the Bank of Taiwan. The Privy Council, a body of august solons with super-legislative power, responsible only to the Emperor, refused to sanction the Cabinet's plan. So, although Premier Wakatsuki had a parliamentary majority, he resigned with his Cabinet...
...Sever 26. Of the trinity of Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, Sophocles is generally regarded as the greatest. He lacks the stiffness, yet retains the force of Aeschylus, and although he does not have the breadth and finesse of Euripedes, he does not lose the power which Euripedes, in his development of the tragedy has lost...