Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Tom Connally is supposed to belong to the group of Southern Senators who would like to weaken Franklin Roosevelt's Southern popularity by making him sign an anti-lynching bill, rarely is there a Southern Senator who does not feel bound to talk against the measure at length on the floor or who does not enjoy himself hugely doing...
...Paris last week, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor began to weaken about their U. S. tour after their first telephone conversation with Charles Bedaux. Next day, they decided to go ahead with it anyway. Day before the Bremen - chosen for the voyage because, unlike American and French liners, she does not call at ports in England - was to sail, the Windsors lunched at the British Embassy, went back to the Hotel Meurice to finish packing their 20 trunks and 50 suitcases. Late that afternoon, the Windsor Housing Tour of the U. S. reached its final anticlimax. This...
...Robbins of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. One of the Church's outstanding liberals, who left the deanship of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine after a tiff with Bishop Manning. Dr. Robbins stands with conservatives in this case, believing that any change would weaken the Christian ideal of marriage. Furthermore, under the leadership of Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell of Providence, 1,300 clergy or 25% of the Church's priesthood signed a petition against liberalization, and last week few bishops or deputies were optimistic of change in the canon...
...nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
While the solution of present day problems cannot be referred to constitutional giants long dead, a searching analysis of the intentions of the framers might weaken the confidence of those who favor so gaily "change by usurpation". Any intelligent discussion of the constitution can help to discredit deceptive interpretations born of extravagant claims sired in partisan debate...