Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soctalists in Austria are already powerless. The Nazis, who desire the annexation of Austria to Germany, are still organized and are becoming more and more aggressive. If the head of the Heimwehr, the Hapsburg Prince Starhemberg, who is against annexation, finds himself unable to control his men, then the Nazi element will gain the upper hand within the Heimwehr. And in this case, the movement towards immediate annexation of Austria by Germany will become unresisted, and official foreign intervention unavoidable...
...France, at Neuve Chapelle, meanwhile, British cannon were spitting out hundreds of thousands of shells which, like the parts of a Ford car, had been manufactured on conveyors. Never, in fact, had the world been so closely interconnected, and never had the individual human being been so powerless as now-a tiny thing amid volcanic mountains. Lieutenant Karl Lakner, however, refused almost indignantly an offer of home-leave, although he could now only endure the world by numbing his senses with liquor. He, too, therefore, was one of the participants in the great front-piercing battle of Gorlice...
...curse of Tantalus haunted their Romantic love. As Amy Lowell explains, "She kept Keats in a burning agitation of desire which, under the circumstances, she was powerless to gratify." Yet she waited out the long days of his illness, lonely in her cold virginity, never regarding the torment of delirious notes in which he accused her of unfaithfulness. She kept faith to the dying poet long after he coughed out his last feeble breath, holding her oval white carnelian in his hand. She had understood his request that her last letter be laid in his coffin. He died. "All that...
...crack down" on employers who violate codes but is powerless to deal with employes who violate its spirit. In not a single code, except that for coal, has Labor surrendered its right to strike. Its argument is that strikes are often necessary to bring NRA disputes to a head for mediation. Uppermost in many a mind last week as the American Federation of Labor opened its annual convention in Washington (see p. 16) was the stand it would take on the tide of strikes sweeping the land. William Green, president, cautioned all workers as follows: "The right to strike...
...bill. The vote was 12-to-7, with Utah's King, Texas' Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial decrees, and the remainder of the law hardly more than a pious expression of policy which any concern could defy with impunity...