Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusual spot for him: on the unpopular side of a question. But he did not refer to these facts when he replied, through the press, to the clamoring friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State Department, whose legalists gave his answer: The President is powerless to lift the embargo on Spain. The general Neutrality Act of May 1937 added civil war to the conditions in a foreign country under which the President must establish an embargo, if a "state of war" exists which endangers U. S. peace. But even if this act could be got round...
...upon you also, a great weight of care which religion alone can teach us to bear worthily. . . . Our religion teaches us that sin is immeasurably a greater evil than suffering. . . . Our people ... are being purified and uplifted by their present trials. . . . War is brutal, but it will ever be powerless to rob any of us of the transcendent peace of men who are at peace with themselves...
...reductions are indicated in General Motors' development of a two-cycle Diesel, which completes the four stages of operation-intake, compression. combustion and exhaust-in each up-and-down stroke of the piston, thus making every piston stroke a power stroke whereas four-cycle motors waste a full, powerless stroke on exhaust and intake...
...vandalism; it revealed that some business associations had paid for protection against union organization as well as vandalism; it showed that racketeering unionists were offering to enforce price-fixing arrangements for employers in return for their compelling workers to join the union and pay dues. Police claimed they were powerless because businessmen refused to sign complaints. Last month, after threats of a shakeup, the police started making arrests. A few days later, Business Agent Mahan was ousted by his international union...
...Announced by Secretary Steve Early was the President's decision that he was powerless to overrule Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes' refusal to allow the sale of 17,000,000 cubic feet of helium to Germany...