His strength as a polemicist served him equally well as a cold war delegate fencing at the United Nations, as the Senate's thundering defender of Social Security and as the nation's pre-eminent moralist on the obligations to impoverished children.
At the U.N. — the institution that rose from the ashes of the war that followed the War to End All Wars — delegates from ten member nations would divide into two teams (determined alphabetically, but coincidentally pitting the U.K. and Germany against each other once again) and compete in a soccer penalty-kick shootout.
Despite the political uncertainty resulting from a recently concluded civil war, 56 delegates met in San Felipe de Austin to draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government.
There was talk of a contested convention where establishment-types and Donald Trump supporters would go to war, pressing delegates to support their preferred candidate.
On January 11 , 1945 the Under Secretary of War, as delegate of the War Contracts Price Adjustment Board, entered an order determining that appellant had realized excessive profits of $1,265,000.
Working jointly, the two chambers have the authority to amend the constitution, approve the budget, confirm presidential appointees, ratify treaties, declare war, and delegate legislative authority to the president for up to one year; each chamber also has exclusive powers.
President Anwar el‐Sadat has organized what in effect is a supergov ernment to deal with the war while delegating to Premier Mahmoud Fawzi and his Cabi net the authority to seek an swers to urgent problems of internal economic and social development.
Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) has long been a lone voice questioning the extensive war powers delegated to the president following 9/11.
The tug-of-war over delegates, the incessant quibbling, the negativity, the selfishness within the same house--it all makes me feel like I need two showers.
The past month hadn't been easy for either candidate, with both Trump and Clinton seeing their frontrunner status threatened by strings of electoral victories and wars of delegate attrition waged by their opponents.
