Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church has erected just across from the United States Senate Office Building.... As a Democrat I am not only disgusted with Prohibition, but I have, I confess, grown restive under the long exclusion of the Democratic party from power...
...reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent Pietro Cardinal Gasparri continues Pontifical Secretary of State, and voices now and then his unalterable opposition to a compromise with the Civil Power (TIME, Feb. 8). Cardinal Gasparri, realist, is conscious of the value of that dramatic martyrdom which surrounds His Holiness as the "Prisoner of the Vatican...
...covers every village and every larger centre in the country, in direct control of all financial centres of government, including the U. S. Federal Reserve System. . . . He controls the revolutionary elements of the world, on one hand, and the ultra-conservative elements, on the other, so he has equal power in Communistic Russia and in capitalistic England, not to mention the theatre, motion picture and agriculture.' Jews claim my assertions are without proof. Merchant Straus wanted me to debate my accusations before a pseudo-court of ten persons. I was to choose any eight men I pleased, he the other...
...five million dollars from the United States Treasury will be spent in the erection of ten light cruisers, if a bill presented to Congress by Representative Butler and approved by President Coolidge is passed. These cruisers will serve supposedly to "guarantee peace" between the nations in the four-power naval pact...
With the approach of Christmas there comes what, for the Student Vagabond an least has become a habit, a sine quanon of the season. This is the performance of Handel's Messiah. Without an afternoon or evening spent under the majestically beautiful power of this great work Christmas would seem to be lacking in some particular. Under its spell everything else is forgotten and from the mighty strength of the "Hallelujah Chorus," and the clear burning faith of the aria. "I knew that my Redeemer liveth," from the entire work as a whole there comes over into the listener something...