Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day the operators' scale committee rejected Governor Pinchot's proposed Board of Investigation and Award, on the ground that it "has power to do but one thing?increase wages...
...Senate employs 21 pages, and youngsters consider the post of page a rare political sugarplum. But several of the Senate pages will have to be discharged this fall because the District of Columbia Superintendent of Schools has announced that under a law passed at the last session he has power to compel school attendance of all children under 14 years...
...latter's friend, Senator Paul Doumer, to form a cabinet. Senator Doumer has had a long and honorable political career* and has not been greatly embroiled in the recent political struggle. He could come forward without stirring the animosities which spring up about every man recently in power. He might succeed in conciliating Blum. He failed...
According to despatches, "a powerful electric bell" has been installed under the seat of every deputy in the Italian Chamber. All are wired to sound in unison at the pressure of a button on the President's bench. "It is not within the power of mortals to withstand the racket. . . . During today's session the device was inaugurated when the deputies waxed tumultuous over a minor point. . . Their shouts were instantly overwhelmed and quieted by the artificial...
...Chang's Tenth Division, was apparently the moving spirit behind this military coup; and despatches early in the week pictured him as "imprisoning" Chang at Mukden, his capital. Later it appeared that Chang's fortunes were not at quite so low an ebb, but that his power has certainly been badly shaken...