Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bokanowski is still remembered in Washington, D. C., as perhaps the most broadminded and conciliatory member of the French debt commission which came abortively to the U. S., chairmanned by brilliant but brittle-tempered Joseph Caillaux (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925, et seq.). In France Barrister Bokanowski is not only potent in the councils of financiers but is rated as an authentic patron of the bold, new movement in French art and decoration. Following his tilt in the Chamber over oil, last week (see col. 1), he took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty with Italy, made...
...flare for entering realms not his own is a curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...
...French courts obey their new instructions and have tightened up their recent laxity in granting divorces to foreigners. The first notable test case under the new regime came up, last week, when onetime (1920-21) U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby sought to obtain a divorce at Versailles. Rich, potent and himself a lawyer, Mr. Colby had retained to present his case that most distinguished of avocats onetime (1920-24) President of France Alexandre Millerand...
...Webster returned good for evil, last week, to famed Lev Davidovitch Trotsky. The descendant is Poet Max Eastman, 45, sometimes considered a dilettante radical, onetime editor of the brilliant but now defunct review, The Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky wrote in his potent yesterdays: 'fallacious and mendacious . . . exploits single incidents of the [Communist] party discussion . . . perverts the meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience. Last week...
...makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve not to set foot in the U. S., although much of his rubber dealing is done with U. S. firms. Although untutored, potent Tan Kah-kee has been elevated to the rank of Chief Justice of the British-fostered "Chinese Court" in Singapore...