Word: fluential
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Thus, when Carter last week went to Texas for a $ 1,000-a-couple Democratic fund-raising dinner in Houston, Kraft added speeches in the districts of two in fluential House members, James Wright and Jack Brooks, to Carter's schedule...
...vivacious, smartly gowned Countess endeared herself to Detroit's uppercrust as lecturer and hostess (she served sherry with a dash of British accent). She kept: 1) a bottle of invisible ink in her apartment kitchen, 2) a black-and-green notebook containing the names of 200 "in fluential" people living in the U.S. For two years - since U.S. agents first called on her for a long, heart-to-heart talk -the Countess has played a dangerous double game: she has bossed the spy ring with one hand, tipped...
Although not conceived with cynical intent, the early dismissal from school is a reflection on the sense of proportion of the general public. A not unin fluential group has determined that America shall not slip down the lax road to ruin. The methods employed however, fit ill with the announced intention. Morality in the last analysis would appear to rest on the inclinations and customs of the people and not on the pointed paternalisms of authority...
After Mr. Murphy's funeral, while political leaders were still assembled in Manhattan, a conference took place behind locked doors in the Hotel Biltmore. Governor Smith himself, George E. Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois (since the death of Mr. Murphy unquestionably the most in- fluential Democratic boss in the country), Norman E. Mack, Democratic National Committeeman from New York, Surrogate James A. Foley, son-in-law of the late Tammany leader and claimant to the Tammany throne, were present...
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