Word: empowerer
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¶ A bill to empower the Governor to use the National Guard in any manner he chooses and to prohibit State courts from interfering. If a judge dares to issue an injunction against the use of troops, he may be fined, thrown into jail.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, who has a gentlemanly aversion to naming names, asked the House of Commons to empower him to collect "certain debts" from "certain foreign countries" by the extraordinary step of seizing the proceeds of their exports to the United Kingdom, at the discretion of His...
The Federal Trade Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and all our other administrative tribunals are not in a position to hold General Johnson's hand with much effectiveness. The Supreme Court, in the Ben Avon case, cut short all the progress which administrative law had made, by ruling flatly that...
Homing Minister Soong was a man to be feared last week. In the U. S. he had negotiated a $50,000,000 loan from Reconstruction Finance Corp. on condition that he control its spending on U. S. cotton and wheat. That was enough to empower him to line up Nanking...
By this time Congress was growing tired of the Child Labor issue which Mrs. Kelley and her cohorts so persistently advocated in the Capitol lobbies and committee rooms. In 1924, less from conviction of right than from a desire to wash its hands of a troublesome question, it submitted child...