Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outnumber the Left (Socialists, 131; Communists, 45) or the Right (German National People's Party, 103). In addition, some 43 votes appertaining to the numerous minor parties, and mostly leaning toward the Right, further serve to divide the Reichstag roughly into three loose factions of almost eq,ual power: "the Lefts," "Luther's Little Centre Coalition," and "the Rights...
...Fascism is maintained by violence and ultimately will be met by counter violence, but not while Mussolini retains his power. Liberty is the preservation of minority criticism. This has been eliminated." Many Italians in the Southern Tyrol have Austrian names. Last week King Vittorio Emanuele signed a Cabinet decree ordering all families in the Tyrolese province of Trento to adopt a strictly Italian spelling of their names, even though the offending syllables might have to be completely translated. Il Benito had taken care to see that fines up to 25,000 lire ($1,000) were provided for nonobservance...
...American sculptors take any position against the employment of fine artists from other countries in order that they may get the work themselves, I will do everything in my power to stop any such sculptor from getting any work on the Cathedral. . . . Neither the trustees nor I will be dictated to by any artist or any sculptor whatever...
...have searched the country from coast to coast and from north to south, but I was able to find only one man who has the power to build into one great, master organization the forces to fight the evils which are seeking to promulgate a theory which will destroy our Government and Christianity, and that man is Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta...
...paraphernalia of foreign trade; it is but in self-defense: she smells of sandalwood still. Her cults her shrines, her potentates, her very homes and villages, are only curious mysteries to Caucasian eyes. Yet theirs are roots before which the Christian faith is a seedling. There is no power in intercourse with the west that can transcend this Oriental inheritance...