Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the country waited to hear an elaboration of the most ominous remark yet by its Chief Executive, Congress pondered that word: War. The conduct of foreign relations is a duty solemnly imposed upon the President by the Constitution. The power to declare war rests solely with the Congress, but the conduct of foreign relations, the thinking and acting that preserves peace or leads up to war, are the President's lawful and awful responsibility. Last week the senior house of Congress began discussion of that specific legal harness for the President which is called the Neutrality Act: whether...
...giving Congress sole power to levy tariffs and otherwise regulate commerce between the States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have...
...nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit O'Malley attended a three-hour mass in Baltimore. But as righteous Attorney-General Murphy announced last week, "no power on earth" was big enough to block Murphy justice, not even prayer...
...last night will be forced to reconsider what they mean by "education." "Nothing could be more certain," he said, "than that science has proven false the doctrine of general education and its fundamental theory that memory or imagination or the reason or the will can be trained as a power." What Dr. Prosser would substitute is "specific education" for the secondary schools, and under this vocationalism he would add to the curriculum such subjects as practice in the use of English as "a tool of communication," business English, current events in economics, wholesome recreation in the community, social amenities...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) will be a revelation to cinemaddicts who have been led to believe that all great figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be almost as much of an historical figure as Tyrone Power, appears satisfactorily as Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, a deaf girl who inspired Bell to continue with his invention and not resume his teaching of elocution...