Word: proclaimer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist, was tossed into jail by Prime Minister Pinay's cops, and stays there; this audacious move so startled his lieutenants that not one of them in the National Assembly has risen to invoke parliamentary immunity for Duclos. The comrades were confused: they hardly knew whether to proclaim Duclos' martyrdom or denounce him for stupidity...
...Rather, proclaim throughout our party's ranks...
...week's end, the Queen's tabarded heralds, riding in their royal coach, made their way through London's traffic-heavy streets from St. James's Palace, to Charing Cross, to Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange, to proclaim, with a fanfare of trumpets, what all her loyal subjects have long known but like to be formally told: Elizabeth will be crowned Queen in Westminster Abbey come June...
...preacher reciting Holy Writ, Davis listed the presidential powers granted in Article II of the Constitution. When he came to the passage charging the President with faithful execution of the laws, he looked up sharply. "What must he take care that he execute faithfully? The laws. He cannot himself proclaim the law and then execute it. The masters of the law are the members of Congress...
What did McGranery think of the theory of "inherent" presidential powers? The judge smiled: "A sacred right, the right to property . . ." Not satisfied, unfriendly Senators bored in: Can the President 1) proclaim an emergency, and then 2) act under that proclamation without check? McGranery thought it would be unfair to give an offhand opinion. Did McGranery agree that the Constitution is never suspended? Still smiling, long fingers folded, the judge said: It would be ridiculous for him to give an immediate answer. "It would take two weeks...