Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislation the junior Senator from Kansas espouses is likely not only to have the firm support of the farmer, but to have a good chance of enactment provided the Presidential veto does not intervene. At any rate as leader of the Senate farm bloc, Mr. Capper has as much power to disturb the even temper of that body's procedure as Mr. Curtis, his colleague, the majority leader, has to carry out the Administration's policies...
...transportation law was enacted which created the Railroad Labor Board, a board composed of representatives of the carriers, of their employes and of the public, with power to settle railroad labor disputes...
...unreasonable, and therefore exceeds the police power of the state, which is unconstitutional...
...showed that 85 percent of the people wished an independent government. Their second choice was for a United States mandate and the third choice was for the British. Almost to a man the population opposed the French mandate. The League, of course, having once established the mandate has no power to change it. The only remedy is the voluntary withdrawal of the nation or its forceful expulsion by the country occupied...
...eight sun years, that eight days elapsed between the last appearance of Hesperus in the west and the first appearance of Phosphorus in the east and that the morning of this first appearance in the east was a morning to be feared, since the light of Venus possessed the power to slay. If the last item implies the existence of what we should call superstition among the Mayas, their calendar, as recently explained and harmonized by Herbert J. Spinden of Harvard, is full proof of their sophistication in at least one realm of science. Dr. Spinden's researches, first announced...