Word: realms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing to give up profits for the sake of preserving absolute neutrality and only a 10% minority was out for selfish profit regardless of its effect upon the country. He referred approvingly to the Supreme Court's decision expounding the President's power in the "vast external realm" of international affairs (TIME, Jan. 4), and made it clear that the stupid Congress which last year, in extending the Neutrality Act, refused to grant him discretionary power in proclaiming arms embargoes, ought now to see the light. Then he asked his hearers please to excuse the homily...
...denying him powers which Congress was glad to yield. NRA and the Oil Code were both adjudged unconstitutional delegations of legislative power to the Executive. Last week the Court, sounding not unlike a Psalmist lauding the Almighty, proclaimed the President's supreme might & majesty in a "vast external realm...
...this vast external realm," observed the bearded, British-born old Associate Justice, "with important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates...
...clergy onto Edward VIII, long before they heard of Mrs. Simpson. On Monday there were cheers for His Majesty among brokers on the Stock Exchange. The King sent to have read for him in Parliament an address in which he specifically promised "to uphold the honor of the realm." Her Majesty could not go to church and has been staying indoors with "influenza" for some time. Happy rumors rippled in London that Queen Elizabeth may have something better than influenza. His Majesty was always officially Albert (familiarly "Bertie") up to last week but Baldwin the Magnificent...
...taking the bull by the horns and entirely removing the boxing team from the realm of intercollegiate competition, the Athletic Association has dealt in highly intelligent fashion with a situation that was rapidly becoming untenable. Faced with a schedule which presented no natural rivals and denied the stimulation of an objective match toward which to point, the boxing team was like a solitaire artist, unable to offer its wares to competition. Now that the sham responsibility of meeting incompetent and undesirable opposition has been lifted from its shoulders, the team can turn its attention to the wealth of intramural activity...