Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statute does not call for a surrender by the States of powers essential to their quasi-sovereign existence. . . . The Social Security Act is an attempt to find a method by which all these [Federal or State] public agencies may work together to a common...
...With only a fortnight to go before Coronation, Lord Amherst's Sovereign and his consort last week took a state voyage down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last...
...definition of the Constitution was drafted by the Committee on Constitutional Philosophy under William N. Chambers '39. It reads, "This Constitution shall be a regularized delegation and limitation of authority from the sovereign people to its governments...
...flood of international amity which has been sweeping down upon our shores since the Britons decided whom among the fecund Windsors they wanted as their sovereign, comes an intriguing bit of flotsam designed specially for Harvard. Not Albion, however, but Germany is seen as the brother nation extending a small sprig of laurel in an attempt to draw fair Harvard out of her accustomed shell. Harvard has again been honored by being asked to send a delegate to the annual celebration of the university of Goettingen. Harvard has again, been honored by being asked to send a delegate...
...would be punished, the Philadelphia press blossomed with predictions that the houses would be raided, the bars smashed. Less impulsive, Penn's administration promised no raiding or snooping if bars and bottles were out of sight by spring. For this wave of righteousness most observers credited President Thomas Sovereign Gates's drive for contributions for Penn's 1940 Bicentennial...