Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate has full power to reject newly proposed appointees whenever the President shall remove the incumbents. Such a check enables the Senate to prevent the filling of offices with bad or incompetent men or with those against whom there is tenable objection...
Within the fortnight, the Supreme Court handed down a cluster of minor decisions along with its opinion on the President's appointive power. Among them these seemed of general interest...
...right to strike. In the case of one August Dorchy v. the State of Kansas, the Supreme Court decided that the state statute, punishing anyone who induces others to strike when the strike is not justifiable, or who orders them to strike through his power incidental to office in a union, is constitutional. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis handed down the decision, said that neither the common law nor the 14th Amendment confers the absolute right to strike...
...hangover which reminds Republicans how bad they were the ( night before. The Klanish horde of 400,000 in 1923 and 1924 has now dwindled to some 17,000 faithful morons. The principal result of the investigations seems to have been to crystallize resentment against Senator Watson, hitherto a Republican power and presidential possibility. He is described by Frank R. Kent, able correspondent of the Democratic Baltimore Sun, in no mild language...
...half the officers who stood with him were hit by fragments of shells. . . . Forced to display a valor equally prodigious, his captains did not fail him. . . . Port Arthur fell.* Colossal Russia reeled. Minute Japan took rank among the mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with the U. S. and Britain (see p. 11). Last week the Japanese Minister of Marine, Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, launched a campaign to secure, an additional expenditure next year...