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Most cities saddled with an ineffectual mayor and aldermen can vote them out of office. But voters in the District of Columbia, whose city council is the United States Congress and whose mayor the President, have no such easy recourse. The barbed problem of segregation illustrates their powerless position; the citizens can do nothing but hope that their preoccupied administrators will eventually offer a solution...
Nick Bunt and the angry council asked the Bishop of Truro to remove Densham. Under the Church of England's constitution; however, the bishop was powerless, for the rector had committed no crime, and he was conducting the services acceptably. Stuck with their rector, the flock retaliated by refusing to go to church. Some went to other Anglican churches; others drifted off to Warleggon's Methodist chapel. After 1935, not a soul among Warleggon's parishioners entered the church for Sunday services again...
...autos, although only 3,000,000 had been scheduled for production. But out of 12,000 military aircraft called for, only 9,000 were completed. Sample bottleneck: for lack of a small electronic part, engines could not be delivered to North American Aviation and powerless Sabre jets had to be lined up in long rows outside the plant. War production fell so far behind schedule that the schedules themselves were cut during the year so as to lower the peak of the arms program and stretch it out well into 1956. Even so, production lagged 5-10% behind the reduced...
...Clark, "the fact of association alone determines disloyalty ... It matters not whether association existed innocently or knowingly." A lot of "completely loyal" Americans, said Clark, in recent years learned "for the first time of the character of groups to which they had belonged." Democratic government, added Clark, "is not powerless to meet [disloyalty], but it must do so without infringing the freedoms that are the ultimate values of all democratic living...
...lashing rain-heavy southwest wind which the Italians call libeccio roared down on the U.S. refrigerator ship Grommet Reefer one night last week outside the crammed seaport of Leghorn. In the raging seas, the ship's engines were powerless as eggbeaters. Within minutes, the Grommet Reefer was hung up on a reef only 150 yards from shore...