Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Transfer of all sovereign rights of the German states to their respective Statt-halters, or Nazi viceroys...
...practicing poet on its payroll. His name is J. Alvin Kugelmass, onetime contributor to Scribner's and the American Mercury and his pay is $19.23 a week, the CWA wage for research workers. Since he is a CWA worker employed not for the pleasure of his sovereign but for the social and economic welfare of the country, Administrator Hopkins detailed him to make poems that would teach English to New York City's immigrants and illiterates. Some of them appear in The American News, a paper published by the Language Research Institute and written entirely in a vocabulary...
...young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma in the U. S. Senate, and Fletcher Settle Riley is Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, youngest man to hold such an honor in any state. Thomas Pryor Gore was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1907 (the year that Oklahoma became one of the United...
...King's most excellent majesty and most gracious sovereign, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects in the Legislative Council and Assembly of Newfoundland, humbly approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such...
...banks.'' ALFRED A. BUERGER Buffalo, N. Y. No law does the R. F. C. evade in purchasing capital notes, but the New Deal, expressing itself in laws of the U. S. and New York State, specifically gives banks a way to get around the constitution of the sovereign State of New York. Capital notes differ in legal theory from preferred stock but are issued, just like preferred stock, to get additional capital without subjecting the owner thereof to double liability. Said the advertisement in which the Manufacturers Trust announced its intention of selling capital notes: "Under the Constitution...