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Word: potently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of Prohibition were perturbed by discovering that another new director of the A. A. P. A. is First Citizen de Forest's almost equally distinguished brother and law partner, Henry Wheeler de Forest, 72, who serves on the directorates of many a potent railroad and of such systems as Western Union and the American Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: To Cut Out . . . the Cancer | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Judge Moore is at present 67, but still robust, brisk and apparently untouched by care. A native of Delaware, he studied law, then entered the State Department Service at 25. So evidently potent were his talents that at 31 he was called to the Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University. Since then he has been recalled to Washington several times to serve as Assistant Secretary of State. In 1913 he was chosen a member of the old Hague Court (The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague) ; and in 1921 he became a judge of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD COURT: Moore Out | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Majesty beloved Albert I is King of the Belgians, but the most potent & picturesque Belgian is Captain Alfred Loewenstein. Last week the stocky, swarthy Captain stepped down upon Manhattan from the liner lie de France with modish but retiring Mme. Loewenstein. As a matter of course, they had occupied the liner's premier suite de luxe and had brought along as guests four titled friends, le Comte et la Comtesse de Grunnes & le Comte et la Comtesse de Montalembert. Equally as usual to the Loewensteins was their staff of 15 secretaries and personal servants. Necessarily eight suites and cabins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Without Ostentation | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Died. Charles Weston Folds, 57, potent capitalist, chairman of Wartime Liberty Loan drives in which $3,000,000,000 was raised in Chicago; of heart disease; at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...drug stores operated by the United Retail Chemists' Corporation, a United Cigar Stores subsidiary. And later will come more retail outlets. Then Louis Kroh Liggett's $102,500,000 United Drug Co.'s chain of drug stores across the U. S. will have a most potent rival. United Cigar's drug store chain will be capitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: United Cigar's Drug Stores | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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