Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example I might cite the case of the Aluminum Company of America. The raw product of aluminum is bauxite, deposits of which occur in the United States, in British Guiana and in many other countries of the world. The principal cost of the manufacture of aluminum is electric power and labor. The cheapest power in the world is hydroelectric; the cheapest labor is foreign. The Aluminum Company has many power prop- erties in the United States, but others in foreign countries, and the largest power of all is now being developed in Canada. From its plants in the United States...
...said Justice James Clark McReynolds, "one of the most detached, most solitary, least worldly men in public life," when a majority of his fellows of the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the power of the President to remove post-masters and other statutory Federal officials. This vital decision was made last week in a suit brought by the late Frank S. Myers to recover back pay for the full period of his appointment as Portland, Ore., Postmaster. President Wilson had removed him without a hearing and without the consent of the Senate. The Court said last week that he could...
Even the makers of the Constitution were unable to agree on the question of the appointment of statutory Federal employes; so a compromise was written to allow the President power to appoint them "by and with the consent of the Senate," without mentioning any procedure for their removal. Then in 1867, the Tenure of Office Act was passed to prevent the President from removing certain classes of postmasters. Last week's decision declares the 1867 act unconstitutional, and interprets in the broadest sense the President's power of removal...
...obtained his seat by bribery. In 1914 his La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank crashed; seven years later he was put in jail because the Government found his banking schemes fraudulent. In 1922 he saw two boys* that he had trained in the political arts thrown out of power in Chicago...
...William Hale Thompson the horn-blowing mayor, and Fred Lundin, the silent man with the black glasses. The only member of the Lorimer- Thompson-Lundin gang left in power is Lennington Small, Governor of Illinois...