Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moreover, to Jefferson, who helped write the Constitution, unauthorized rise of power, no matter how justified, was cause for anxiety and doubt. Jefferson wrote: "The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, has done an act beyond the Constitution." He said he would go to Congress as a guardian who has invested the money of a ward might go to him when he came of age and say: "I did this for your good; I pretend no right to bind you; you may disavow me, and I must...
...Wallace warnings against Adolf Hitler, which he made into a campaign argument: With Franklin Roosevelt standing for democracy and Adolf Hitler standing for dictatorship, those who opposed him were Hitler's conscious or innocent allies. Charging that Republican leadership has not understood the meaning of Hitler's rise, he declared...
This week, as several hundred thousand automobile workers returned from long Labor Day weekends, motor bigwigs held many hurried last-minute confabs before drawing the curtain on the 1941 model year. Weekly production idled around 30,000 cars last month, is expected to rise towards 115,000 or more by Thanksgiving. Charts called for 1,200,000 cars in the final 1940 quarter, boosting this year's output to a three-year high of 4,200,000, up 13% from 1939's 3,733,000. For 1941, few motormakers expect to equal the 5,016,000 cars produced...
...Hocking believes that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived, simply because it can recover there so many lost fragments of what is its own." The fusion of spiritual beliefs which he envisages for the world faith of the future will be God-centred rather than Christ-centred: "God is in His world, but Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed are in their little private closets, and we shall thank them, but never return to them...
...better and an earlier prophet than the Street in the past. Some reflected that English brokers have sons and cousins in the R. A. F., may get firsthand information on the progress of the air war. A few, juggling figures, tried to prove that London's price rise meant the beginning of inflation...