Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailing Arthur Vandenberg expected to be back on the Senate floor in January. New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's George Aiken, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley would be around for at least another six years. Their team had added a potent freshman in Pennsylvania's burly Jim Duff, and it had sent an ancient opponent, Missouri's Forrest Donnell, to the showers. In high Republican councils, Bob Taft's show-me internationalism was more than outbalanced by the sizable majorities of the two international-minded coastal governors, Tom Dewey...
...Doctors have recognized from the beginning that in giving patients such potent new hormones as ACTH and cortisone they are playing with fire. Now that the hormones are becoming available to doctors everywhere, the dangers of use without careful controls are increasing. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, three doctors of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital warned that the hormones might cause hardening of the arteries...
...year-old Charles Allen Jr. A New York City boy who quit school at 15 to be a Stock Exchange messenger, Allen learned the Street's ways so well that he parlayed his pocket change into $15 million. With his younger brothers Herbert and Harold, he built the potent investment banking firm of Allen & Co. (TIME, Aug. 2,1948). They bought up and reorganized the Rockefellers' famed Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., Germany's war-forfeited American Bosch Corp., captured many another plum with their sharp-eyed knack for spotting "special situations...
...Texas, is Chrysler's third president. Unlike Founder Chrysler and K. T. Keller, he did not come up through the shop. But he was K.T.'s personal choice, and also the. choice of Manhattan's Nicholas J. Kelley, the corporation's legal adviser and a potent voice in its affairs...
However, the style of offense is not the key to Princeton's success. The big factor is personnel and most experts who have watched the Tigers in action this year agree that they would be equally potent operating from the T or the Notre Dame box. The manpower is there...