Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, one wing of his executive power, the Board of Control, still remained clipped by hostile Filipinos. This Board is composed of the Governor General, the President of the Senate (Manuel Quezon), the Speaker of the House (Manuel Roxas). It controls and selects the directors of all government owned corporations: the Philippine National Bank, the Manila Railroad Co., the National Coal Co., etc. Governor General Wood, being the minority member of this Board, was unable to put his policies into effect; so last week, on the day of the adjournment of the legislature, he announced that henceforth all the duties...
...already long past the age which interests life insurance companies, when his left hand brandisHed the Speaker's gavel before the House of Representatives on March 19, 1910. On that day he fought for the power which echoed from his gavel. For seven years he had told the House what to do, by means of a few terse epigrams and a set of rock-ribbed rules.* Now the House was in revolt against its Tsar. The epigrams were impotent without the rules; so Democrats and insurgent Republicans, led by Representative (now Senator) George W. Norris of Nebraska, made...
Bryan Resigns. "Bryan continued: 'I go out into the dark. The President has the Prestige and the Power on his side. ... I have many friends who would...
...Oxford, until he won an M. A. Well-to-do, he accepted a post on the faculty of the University of Toronto and led for a time a graceful existence. As administrator of the Massey Educational Fund left by his grandfather he enjoys the distinction of being culturally a power. Upon quitting the University some years ago he became President of the Massey-Harris Company, from which he resigned to become Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Premier King...
...losing to Brown and Princeton, Yale was for more impressive than Harvard. The Elis held the mighty Bruins to one hard earned touchdown, while Coach Horween's men were sunk under 21 points. Against Princeton the Bulldogs flashed their real power and only a fatal failing to make use of opportunities prevented the Blue from flaunting proudly over the Orange and Black at the end of the game, while the Canta-bridgians never threatened the Tigers...