Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sovereignty of the State shall be no more. The new President has set up a Boston Tea Party of his own by which he will reach out into the sovereign States, draw out the tax resources, and then withhold from the States their proportion of this fund if they insist on exercising the right of a State...
...called in Japanese reporters, publicly sighed short pants of relief and gave them their best story of the week. "Every night during the visit of the Emperor of Manchukuo," said he, "I dreamed a most terrible dream. I had never before been responsible for the safety of a foreign sovereign. For any failure there could be but one expiation. Every night I dreamed that I was summoned by my chief, the Minister of Home Affairs, and ordered by His Excellency to commit hara-kiri...
...prosperous and at peace. Early in 1936 it had become apparent that the nation was headed toward piecemeal sabotage of the old Constitution. The Constitutional Convention of 1937 had thoroughly reordered the patchwork of compromises put together by the representatives of jealous sovereign States just 150 years before. The waste and confusion of 48 State governments were wiped out. The nation had been carved into a few great regional Commonwealths along economic lines. Freed from the tyranny of a Senate minority (treaties now required only the joint consent of a majority of both Houses), successive Presidents had concluded sound trade...
...Michigan State College of Agriculture, six pacifist leaders, including the pastor of the Unitarian Church of Ann Arbor, were tossed into the Cedar River. C. In Philadelphia, thanks to the support of the Board of Education and University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas Sovereign Gates, attendance at high school and college meetings reached 30,000, with more Quakers than Communists in evidence...
...very meet, right, and our bounden duty that we should give thanks unto Thee, 0 Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God, for that Thou wast pleased as on this day to set Thy servant our Sovereign Lord, King George, upon the Throne of this Realm and has profited him in days of sickness and of health throughout his reign of five and twenty years...