Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus broken his silence on the Tariff, President Hoover once more fell silent, watched the Tariff War from afar...
...Congresswomen have, however, sometimes presided over sessions of the Committee of the Whole, the House's working lineup...
...then pressed . . . the importance of maintaining the flexible tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...
They asked him if he thought he was the whole Board. Said he: "We haven't had a divided vote in the Board. I can, therefore, reasonably be held responsible. . . . You have the right fellow here and if it has been wrong you can crucify...
...Sword devoureth one as well as another." Hardened and harsh was King David when he spoke these words to the messenger who told him that Uriah, husband of Bathsheba, had been slain as planned. But from the new Bible is missing the whole chapter that describes the unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan...