Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospect of the Speaker of the Legislature summoning an impeachment session, even that project was damped. By a legal anomaly, such a session would not have power to appropriate money for its own expenses. Speaker Lee Satterwhite announced that he has promises of private citizens to contribute $300,000 for the expenses of the session, and Jim Ferguson turned on him with the cry of "Slush fund!" In addition it was realized that, even if the state House of Representatives impeached the Governess, Jim Ferguson has probably sufficient strength in the Senate to prevent her being removed from office. Then...
...first time in my political life am clutching onto power. In the past I have sometimes longed for the freedom from responsibility which would follow the overthrow of a ministry of which I was a member. Tonight it is otherwise. In my heart I know that if you overthrow me you will have committed a grave act against our country...
...recalled that U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg warned the Sheriffians that they were violating U. S. statutes in fighting against a foreign power (TIME, Sept. 28, THE CABINET). But President Percy Peilotti of the American Club at Paris toasted his much criticized guests as follows: "As friends of France we are grateful to you; as Americans we are proud...
...time it was announced that the new Directorate intended to remain in power only long enough to purge Spain of her corrupt internal administration and to restore the prestige of her armies in Morocco. Last week it began to look as if this promise were being kept rather well by Dictator de Rivera. He announced that he bas built up a political party, the Patriotic Union, and declared that he will function henceforth as Premier of the following half-civil, half-military Cabinet...
...attendants who stooped among the glinting wheels and thrusting, noiseless pistons of the engine room, tried not to get their cuffs dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines of a new design, the largest ever built, which use crude oil for internal combustion approximately as an "automobile uses gasoline. Each engine drives a propeller. The vessel averaged 17 knots. Its smokestacks are dummies...