Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These mountaineers?his feudal retainers?are the true and only stable support of his power. At 16, he succeeded to his late father's duties as Chief; and since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...
Observers recalled the very notable liberalism of the present day Austrian Republic, a state of public opinion which keeps the So- cialists overwhelmingly in power, though the Roman Catholic element among them has effectually blocked the emergence of anything resembling Communism...
Revolt in the Desert. Colonel Lawrence tells what he did simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book...
Asked concerning the aims of the Cantonese forces in China, once they are in entire command of the country, Mr. Borah said, "I think that the Cantonese forces in China are the most hopeful forces there, for several reasons. Some faction must soon win out in the struggle for power in China, and in my opinion if the Southern party wins, it will be the best for the country. It will mean the unification of the country for the first time in many years. This alone, will certainly be a great benefit. In addition, the victory of the Cantonese will...
...emphasizing the latter point Professor Frankfurter has done a service to the public and to the cause of the administration of justice. People in general naturally have so little knowledge of the details of legal practice that they are apt to misunderstand the scope of a court's power and consequently the effect of its decision. Much unwarranted criticism of the courts is apt to be the result. The effect of Professor Frankfurter's study from the standpoint of the lawyer is to focus attention on the practically unlimited discretion of the trial judge in Massachusetts on matters which vitally...