Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera gave quaint testimony to present turbulent conditions in Spain. Said he, "I feel no disquietude. . . . Not more than four per cent of the subjects of His Majesty are disposed to rebellion, so there is no need for apprehension...
...Recently the English birth rate has been increasing. Dr. George F. Buchan, medical officer of London, sought explanation. It lies with the women, he last week decided: "Every woman, every real woman, and there are more of the latter than the average person thinks, is desirous of having babies. . . . Present indications are that we are starting on another big family cycle...
...Commission in quandary. Wireless experts figure that 208 short wave wireless channels can be used for communications within the U. S. Of that number 43 are now being used by foreign countries and so are forbidden to U. S. commercializers. Not enough channels are available to satisfy even the present four petitioners...
...addressed the Continental Congress: "Should not a court be established by authority of Congress to take cognizance of prizes made by the Continental vessels?" The prize vessels got their court, and were forgotten. But the federal court has persisted for a century and a half, and culminates in the present Supreme Court which is designed to maintain the necessary balance 1) between State and Nation; 2) between individual rights as guaranteed by the constitution and social interest as expressed in legislation...
...Significance. It has been said that the nine men on the Supreme Court at Washington are the real rulers of this country. Be that as it may, their position is such that the alert U. S. citizen should know the extent of their power. Though both the present volumes are concerned with restricting the business of the Supreme Court they do not propose to restrict its jurisdiction, but rather the amount of its work, so that the Court may be increasingly powerful. Hughes emphasizes the Court's deliberate determination to confine itself to its judicial task (maintaining of course...