Word: validly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitution for its amendment: 1) "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments. . . ." 2) "The Congress ... on the application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments which . . . shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several states or by conventions in three fourths thereof. . . ." To date, only the first method has been used...
Perhaps a still more valid cause is that most professors, even in the most elementary of courses, presuppose on the part of their students, an interest which does not exist. For that reason, they feel that they are fulfilling their duties if they retail the facts, in no matter how cold and dreary a manner. For graduate students, already deeply engrossed in their work, this assumption may apply, but as concerns undergraduates it is a serious fallacy...
...other nations; and in, fact the offering of her shipping is one of the few ways in which Europe can pay back the vast debt owed to the United States. The arguments for a great American merchant marine are based almost entirely on sentiment. There is only one valid argument for the support of an unprofitable institution; that of provision for national defense...
...objection to a close relationship with the League valid. It is an advisory relationship solely. Furthermore, the League is not the horrible militaristic monster Senator Borah has pictured it to be. It has accomplished far more for the good of the world in refinancing central Europe for example than timid and provincial American Senators can ever hope to accomplish. And is the United States to believe forever that a valid interest in the affairs of Europe and the world brings with it the plague...
...that the President-elect is likely to use his powers to aid the homecoming of the Hohenzollerns, his powers are strictly limited. He receives diplomats and State visitors, dissolves the Reichstag (but only on the recommendation of the Chancellor), signs treaties, acts and other instruments which, however, are not valid without the signature of the Chancellor or the responsible Cabinet Minister. The President makes all appointments on the Chancellor's suggestion, does not choose Cabinet Ministers, but does appoint the Chancellor. His one unrestricted right is that of dismissing the Cabinet...