Word: reasserted
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...this discretion that ex-Secretary of State Hull had fought so long & hard, believing that presidential power to adjust tariffs was a prime necessity for the horse-trading required between nations. Hull's underlying objective had been freer trade. Republican leaders evidently intend to 1) reassert Congress' prerogatives, 2) put on the brakes...
...Congress, reassert[ing] ... its rights and powers as an equal member of the three great branches of the U.S. Government" by demonstrating its belated independent action in overriding, emasculating and nipping in the bud recent Executive efforts, is no ultimate loss to Presidential prestige...
...United Nations, at the cessation of hostilities if not earlier, should reassert and recognize the boundaries of the European states as of 1933, so far as possible (i.e. except for limitations mentioned below.) This reassertion of old boundaries would have the advantage that it would emphasize as an international principal that aggressive conquests by force and in defiance of treaty obligations, such as those made by the Axis Powers, will not be recognized...
However, it will not always be possible or desirable to reassert all the 1933 boundaries, especially where they may have been set aside by subsequent votes of self-determination or where they may have become clearly impracticable. Thus, Germany should keep the Saar Territory which it recovered in 1935 by a free and fair plebiscite and with the blessing of the League of Nations. Russia will keep the "Russian" territories noted above which she occupied in 1939-40, some of which were clearly too small and weak for an independent existence and voted (under pressure, to be sure) to become...
...seventy-fifth anniversary the Advocate has tried to reassert its claim to national prominence. Featuring, almost exclusively, the work of prominent literary figures, its table of contents alone would entitle it to the attention of contemporary critics. If, inevitably, much of such a collection represents "the worst material of the best people," enough exceptions are included to justify occasional more judicious forays on the national literary scene...