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...light in their homes or power in their factories. This made even Governor Frank Murphy speak to the strikers severely, and the union negotiating committee hurrying back from Washington by plane told the workers to come to their senses before the whole public grew angry at them. After a powerless day service was finally restored...
...Soon thereafter the nation was told by a judicial Pronunciamento that although the Federal Government had thus been rendered powerless to touch the problem of hours and wages, the States were equally helpless; and that it pleased the 'personal economic predilections' of a majority of the Court that we live in a nation where there is no legal power anywhere to deal with its most difficult practical problems-a no man's land of final futility...
...Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning, upon finding the State powerless to annul the marriage: "It's nothing short of tragedy...
...procession drew into Boston the crowds grew denser and more conclusively enthusiastic. Some 150,000 people jammed Boston Common and vicinity and police reserves and guardsmen were almost powerless. Boss Curley introduced the President who made a speech from his car. A good part of the crowd did not hear him because the amplifiers were not strong enough...
...reflected in Madrid by a complete upheaval of the Cabinet. Thus far sympathizers with Madrid had been able to claim that "not a single Socialist or Communist" sat in the Cabinet under President Manuel Azaña. Though the secret was long since out that this Cabinet was powerless, that Madrid was dominated by Red militia and "People's Tribunals'' similar to those which asserted themselves during the French Revolution, the fagade of the Republic was maintained. It crumbled as Irun fell and the Reds grew desperate. Almost a prisoner in his own Presidential Palace, scared...