Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should stand unblushingly opposed to the Japanese "Monroe Doctrine" in China particularly we who got worked up into a terrific hear when European vultures came over some years ago and inspired a Monroe Doctrine under similar circumstances. Well, probably was had a right, a protective right, in our American sphere; and besides, we were making the world safe for democracy, at least, the American world at that time by undesigning the South American Revolution and thus making it a successful revolution. But I am led to wonder if it is not a bit brazen and self-contradictory to get into...
...game, but I do favor a more cautious pressing of our suit. If all of us could only keep a sense of friendly rivalry we would be a long way toward maintenance of peace. But, give Japan some thought, for she is, after all, in her own sphere. Alfred M. Nittle...
...unconstitutional the national industrial recovery act in so far as it transcends the power of the Federal Government and seeks to regulate commerce within a State, for in its latest decision the Supreme Court's majority opinion significantly points out that the Federal Government is final within its own sphere and the States are dominant with respect to powers interested to them by the Constitution...
...many respects the decision is the strongest yet rendered as to the power of government over the individual. Were the doctrine written into law by the forty-eight States and supplemented by the Federal Government as to its sphere, it would be perfectly possible to introduce Fascism or Communism or any other form of State control and still stay within the Constitution. But it is significant that the court lays stress on the police power being vested in the forty-eight States. It will take action by forty-eight governments to give us Fascism or Communism, and each of these...
Recognizing the unsatisfactory nature of present methods of admission to college, the report states vaguely that the most effective system is that based upon a continuous individual record of the student's activities in every sphere. The present system based upon standard examinations though unsatisfactory must remain until uniformity is achieved by the secondary schools. The Foundation has apparently not considered the possibility of devoting itself to this task. Proceeding to the colleges proper, the report attacks the dominant position of professors in assigning credits, but it fails to offer a substitute. In a similar manner the report discusses...