Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legal Point. In adopting (in 1913) the 17th Amendment to the Constitution (popular election of senators), it was provided that Governors shall have the power to fill Senate vacancies by appointment, provided their legislatures give them that power. All but two legislatures have specifically done so. One of the two is the legislature of Kansas, the other of North Dakota. The North Dakota legislature has however passed a law empowering the Governor to fill vacancies in state offices...
With this sulphurous byplay safely over, everyone barkened while Conservatives read hour-long extracts from volumes of constitutional law to prove that the King government was flatly violating every legal precedent in clinging to power. Needless to say, Liberals read out precedents for Mr. King's acts from other volumes. At length a furious discussion arose as to how many minutes, hours or days William Pitt remained away from the British House of Commons...
...Unless they accept these terms, the Aventines shall not re-enter here-either today or as long as I am in power...
...when the evening's feature bout was announced. Old eyes were confused by a ghostly image that arose out of the real man that stood there (Bob Fitzsimmons Jr.), the image of another* baldish, freckle-shouldered fighter in whose whiplike arms, thin waist and slender legs lurked terrible punching power. The real man that was seen by younger eyes had thicker legs and more reddish hair than his father, but not quite that look of Irish lightning on the leash. But there was great cheering, and more when Jack Delaney entered the ring with some of his Bridgeport, Conn., acquaintances...
Another by no means inexperienced or uninformed group of business men is so impressed by the country's immense credit and money power that it is less inclined to predict a business slump in 1926. They point out that never in the history of the country has bank credit been so cheap, abundant and apparently sound at the crest-if it is one-of a business boom. In general they believe that our great banking resources are today a stabilizing factor that never existed before in anything like the same degree...