Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precedent in recognizing foreign governments are: 1) The government desiring recognition must be in de facto control; 2) There must be apparent popular acquiescence of the de facto government; 3) It must "manifest a disposition" to fulfill its international obligations; 4) It must have secured its power by constitutional means. (Policy No, 4 is a quibble, since scarcely any existing governments have attained power without some sort of "revolution" -although later, as in the case of the U. S., they may have been constitutionally "secured...
...East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity of Tammany Hall and the power of the "Al" Smith banner were enough to lift him to the Senatorship...
...open question with the teachers and students in a school of law. . . . Christian Science is not an open question with the faculty of a college of physicians and surgeons. . . . Union Theological Seminary is committed to the cause of Jesus Christ, to His faith and His purpose and His redeeming power, to training men and women to spread His Gospel. . . . His supremacy as the revelation of God and the Savior of the world is not an open question with...
...invading Bulldog eleven is known to be a powerful one, and it is likely that Captain Hamilton Heard '28, will lead his men to battle against a favored team. Inconsistency has been the besetting sin of the Crimson third-year players all season, but the team has shown the ability to rise to an occasion with flashes of true power that have carried it to victory in the class-league scramble...
...teaching in the university. Decisions of this sort should be left entirely in the hands of the regents. Second, the Board of Regents must be freed from political control as far as possible. There must be no opportunity for packing a Board as Governor Hartley did. By limiting the power of removal to that minimum possessed by the President over the higher federal judges such opportunity would be removed. In the third place the development of the Junior College should be fostered and encouraged. It is to be expected that these institutions, once well established, will attract away from...