Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, meteorologically wise, would ever murmur these words to the heavens. For it is rain that keeps a President and his party in power; drought forebodes political upheaval...
...major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused the party in power to wane. Several economists have recognized the correlation between rainfall and economic cycles. It is just one step further to carry the economic results to their political conclusion...
Then Mr. Marshall proceeded to list rainfalls from 1825 to 1924 to show that, with only two exceptions, a drier-than-normal four years was followed by the defeat of the party in power; with only one exception, a wetter-than-normal four years heralded continuance in power...
...though Haiti's juries are filled with men hostile to the government and to the President, Mr. Borno remains in power. Is it possible, they asked, that Senator King is right, that "Commissioner Russell is the power in Haiti," that there is there "an American bayonet rule...
...With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power, I do not believe that China will become imperialistic, certainly not in the near future...