Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hull's reciprocal trade agreements (which would get rid of reduced tariffs on wool goods) for the duration of the war; 2) consider upping tariffs to prevent flooding of the U. S. market by foreign producers. Said he: "When the war is over we will be powerless to prevent a flood of foreign fabrics...
...easily the most outstanding in ability, personality, intelligence. This fact tends to support the long-current story that she is not the daughter of Donna Rachele but rather the product of a grande passion of Benito Mussolini with a Russian woman Socialist in the days when he was a powerless, ranting radical...
When Count Bethlen became Premier, Hungary was undergoing a bloody White terror, production was at a standstill, the Government was almost powerless, and Republicans and Legitimists were cutting each other's throats. No one expected him to last any longer than his short- lived predecessors, but the Count surprised everybody, hung on for more than ten years, set an endurance record for Premiers in post-War Europe. The first problem facing him was what to do about the Emperor Charles's attempt to regain the Hungarian throne. Republicanism ran against the Count's aristocratic grain...
Bryce-Byram Smith, as Mayor, up to last week was a powerless dummy. Such authority as Boss Tom did not wield for himself was vested (since 1926) in rich, famed City Manager Henry F. McElroy and in the City Council. Last week Mayor Smith suddenly announced that for the good of Kansas City, he was taking unto himself the powers placed in Henry McElroy by the city charter...
...rural support of the WPA money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago's old Adolph Sabath kept back their forces, without which the farm Democrats were powerless against a strong Republican phalanx. The parity payments perished...