Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Washington this week two grimly determined men set out for Europe bent on keeping friends-but saving U.S. gold and dollars. To strengthen their sales pitch, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon had a potent new persuader: the seeds of a "Buy American" policy in the cuts in U.S. spending abroad decreed last week by Dwight Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But it was unlikely that the travelers would be obliged to brandish this weapon. Unable to blink any longer the sobering fall in U.S. gold reserves, U.S. allies around the world had at last...
Hong Kong's warehouses were soon piled high with opium, and some 80 clipper ships smuggled the drug to Chinese dealers along the 4,000-mile coast of the mainland. Reckless men poured in from every land. When the potent Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. was founded in 1864, it was backed by 14 different firms-British, American, German, Indian, Turkish, Danish-and its first manager was a Frenchman. A British visitor warned that "anyone compelled to come by duty to Hong Kong should have a stout heart and a lively trust in the mercy...
...numbness of fatigue, other than the sadness written on Pat Nixon's face as Nixon all but conceded defeat. Once it had been thought that if Nixon lost, he would be thrust aside in favor of a Rockefeller or a Goldwater. Instead, he emerged still a potent figure in the Republican Party. There would be many who would say that the TV debates did Nixon the most harm, giving the unknown Kennedy a chance to show himself. There would be Republican post-mortems over where an ounce of extra energy might have tipped the balance. Republicans might well wonder...
Minnesota. Jaunty, fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, 49, is a child of the South Dakota dust bowl who cannot forget that New Deal relief programs saved the customers who saved his family's drugstore. Mastermind of Minnesota's potent Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, erudite ex-Professor (political science) Humphrey first talked his way to the Senate in 1948. He can be counted on to lead his crusade for true-blue liberalism come recession, prosperity or the millennium...
...week's Republican honors easily belonged to Ike. His speeches were more politically potent than any he had ever made on his own behalf. Besides, he was obviously stung by Kennedy's accusations that his had been a standstill Administration in which U.S. power and prestige had declined. In Pittsburgh, obviously intending his remarks to show that Kennedy was not big enough for the presidency, Eisenhower, in a reminiscent mood, told a G.O.P. audience of the terrible loneliness of decision in the White House, in words that had a beyond-the-battle feeling about the office. On Dday...