Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago the Administration managed by only 21 votes in the House to beat the proposal by Indiana's Louis Ludlow that the Constitution be altered to require, except in case the U. S. was invaded, a national referendum before Congress could declare war on a foreign power. As revised by the twelve Senators, the proposed amendment would take from Congress the power to declare war except in case of "attack by armed forces, actual or immediately threatened" upon U. S. territory or upon "any country in the Western Hemisphere" threatened by a non-American nation...
WASHINGTON--The problem of American recognition of the Spanish Insurgent government and the possibility of Congressional approval of an administration-opposed measure to give the people sole power to declare war were thrust into the forefront of foreign policy and national defense today...
...survey of Harvard's class of 1911 showed that even after a quarter of a century his classmates were earning less than $5000 per man. The number of college students has increased almost six-fold since Tunis' undergraduate days: the college diploma is progressively decreasing in its power to assure large incomes...
...issue is more simply stated than solved. From the University standpoint, educational institutions are traditionally tax-exempt. Harvard has brought great prestige and considerable purchasing power to Cambridge, and while admittedly removing large pieces of property from the city tax list, has raised the value of adjoining real estate...
What City Hall sees is a vast tax-exempt "inland Empire," assessed at $164,298,020, more than the total taxable value of Cambridge, White the city provides police, fire, and health protection, ever since the opening of the subway much of Harvard's, purchasing power, once a Cambridge monopoly, has been shifted to Boston. Moreover, it has been charged that the House system has cut into-the local restaurant and boarding-house trade...