Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry M. Blackmer, the fugitive from Denver and from U. S. justice for whom President Coolidge last month signed a special warrant that he might be seized in France and brought home to account for concealing from the Government his profits in Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's Continental Trading Co. five years ago (TIME, June 4), was still in France last week. He was moving in Paris "disguised"' in slouch hat and horn spectacles. He was, said newsgatherers, dodging newsgatherers, not Government officials. He did not fear extradition, they said, because he could not be extradited unless...
...vast is the project, so complex the factors, that Nominee Hoover might well have wished to avoid stump discussion of Boulder Dam. But Senator Johnson, his alleged ally, without whose friendship California might not be Hooverized, last fortnight cried out that "no man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain" (TIME, Aug. 13). And so, after his multitudinous reception in Los Angeles last week, Nominee Hoover mounted the city hall steps and said...
Citizens wondered what, if any, relation or comparison there might be between Mr. Ford's reasoning processes and the processes of John Jacob Raskob, retired finance chairman of General Motors, the biggest Ford competitor. Long before his new political activities caused him to withdraw from General Motors, Mr. Raskob was, as everyone knows, active in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...English seeking in our territorial waters in 1919? Without any formal declaration of war they attacked us, sank our ships and bombarded our forts. The English monitor Erebus frequently fired her 15-in. guns at our fort, Red Hill. The English broke into our house by the right of might to kill the workers and peasants and to turn back the wheel of revolution...
When it became known that the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, was to engage in a debate with Alfred E. Smith (see p. 10), many an honest church man was puzzled and annoyed. The proposed controversy was one in which they might not remain neutral. Their sympathies were not with the presidential candidate. Hence they were forced to take the side of the fundamentalist clergyman. But before they did so, even as he had cast reflections upon Governor Smith's record, they found it advisable to reflect upon Dr. Straton...