Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi voters had chosen him as their U.S. Senator-three times in twelve years they had chosen him. Last week he arrived in Washington to claim the seat to which he was entitled by the vote of the sovereign state of Mississippi...
Overton growled: "The Senator from Ohio [Taft] is not yet the whole Senate, no matter what he may think about it." South Carolina's Burnet Maybank shouted hoarsely: "After all, Mississippi is a sovereign state." After all, Bilbo was Mississippi's choice. Bilbo slouched at his old desk, clutching his cigar...
...clear that until quite recently any legal judgment against a warmaker would have been absurd. Throughout the centuries the choice between war and peace remained entirely in the hands of each sovereign state and neither the law nor the ordinary conscience of humanity ventured to deny that right. For the loser in a war, punishment was certain. But this was not a matter of law; it was simply a matter of course." In the wake of World War I, however, he continued, repeated efforts were made to outlaw war, "reaching their climax in the Kellogg-Briand Pact...
...sentence in Article 2 which referred to Indonesia as a "free democratic state." Soekarno's Economics Minister, 38-year-old A. K. Gani (who once acted in a Batavian-made movie True Love), objected: "That word 'free' is not enough. It should be 'sovereign.' " Van Mook turned to Soekarno: "Will you accept the agreement if it is changed to sovereign?" Almost before he knew it, Soekarno said yes, and the agreement was signed...
While general education must continue to be the responsibility "of each of the 48 sovereign states," he pointed out that professional education can be provided only in a large and expensive University and "might well be financed by a direct Federal scholarship or fellowship program...