Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theorists and conjecturers wondered how the Republican South would be recognized, what new Californians might be taken to Washington, whether Mrs. Willebrandt would get her long-sought judgeship, etc., etc. Upon two basic matters, however, observers were satisfied-that the major appointments would contain a minimum of politics, a maximum of fitness; and that many an oldtime Hoover man would be recalled...
...view, radio's difficulties would be better handled in the Department of Commerce, where radio regulation rested before Congress declined Mr. Hoover's advice. It would not be surprising to hear him as President recommend to Congress what it refused him as Secretary. If Congress complied, radio might then be put under some oldtime Hoover man, one of the scores of specialists whom Mr. Hoover has had working under him in his various large undertakings of the past 20 years...
...head of the Bendix Co., for $3,000,000. Mr. Bendix, they hoped, would neither dilapidate it nor try to carry the Palmer torch. Characteristic was the stipulation postponing his occupancy until the end of November, in order that, last Saturday, Granddaughter Bertha Palmer's presentation to society might be staged in its hallowed halls...
...recent campaign warmed up, it became fairly evident that there was a strong assent to the assumption that Catholics might be fitted for minor offices, or at least might be tolerated within them, but to reach up for the big gift of the people was an impertinence that would have to be not only denied but punished as well...
...that in the United States Catholics were to be Ishmaelites. They were not to be heirs of the fine things to which Protestants might rightly reach-rather they were to be the contented stepchildren that should be satisfied with the crumbs that fell across from their master's table...