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...legalists had argued that the Constitution does not provide for popular balloting on general questions. Lawyer McAdoo observed that the Congress was empowered "to provide for the general welfare of the United States." He proposed that the next President call a special session of Congress to empower him to proclaim "a national advisory referendum." Well aware that this liberal Prohibitionist policy was the dangerous procedure of fighting fire with fire, Mr. McAdoo macadoodled: "I would accept the challenge with supreme confidence...
...Lausanne Conference will bluntly proclaim," stated Wolff's "that Reparations are at an end, so far as Europe is concerned...
...receive the blessing. Joseph's coat of many colors will indeed become fruitful and infinitely multiply. Heraldie rabbita will cavort on Levereff pajamas; tennis shoes will be tricked out in tri-color; and at length an Eliot man will wear from tip to too the azure and red that proclaim him every inch an elephant...
...with a parade on the ice track in Lake Placid's new $35,000 stadium. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech: "It is an evidence of the age of our modern civilization that the Olympics date back nearly 2,800 years. ... I hereby proclaim open the third Olympic winter games celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era." Greek athletes, before their Olympic games, swore to compete fairly and to the best of their abilities. Modern Olympic athletes also have an oath, to recite which the U. S. committee selected Jack Shea, 21-year...
Whatever anyone may think, the House Plan is admittedly by its creators a perpetuation of Professor Merriman's idea, which he has never been at a loss to proclaim. Granting that, how can the dining hall system be anything except what it is? If you want the House to be a unit, you want people to eat in the House; and if you want people to eat in the House, you can scarcely want less than ten meals per person per week; one a day and three besides or two a day Monday through Friday. As for getting the beast...