Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week William Randolph Hearst, titular head of many a potent U. S. newspaper, discussed in Editor & Publisher the ethics of crime reporting. After estimating that "the New York Times, which is a very thorough paper, printed more words on the Snyder trial than any other newspaper in New York," Mr. Hearst entered upon a comparison between the newspaper and the author: "There are various elements of interest in the fiction stories which appear in books and on the stage, and in the fact stories which appear in newspapers-such as romance, adventure, melodrama, comedy and tragedy. . . . "In dealing with...
...Eastman, in supporting the revised International Fixed calendar, distributed new documents last week and called attention to potent businessmen who already favored the idea: President H. Edson White of Armour & Co., Chairman E. M. Beatty of the Canadian Pacific Railway, President V. M. Cutter of United Fruit Co., President George H. Wilcox of International Silver Co., President C. M. Chester Jr. of Postum Cereal Co., President S. L. Willson of American Writing Paper Co., dozens of others...
Missionaries. It was considered most appropriate that Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, a potent missionary, should make his first formal speech as new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church before his Foreign Mission Board, which held its 30th annual conference in Manhattan. Said he: "All over the world today we see the breaking down of all other religions. And now it is going to be the Christian religion or no religion whatever. It is a clear issue between Christianity and agnosticism...
Many a man has made friends with milkwagon horses between the hours of 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., but who would dally with such nags in broad daylight? John McEntee Bowman, potent hotelman, would and did. A year ago, he took Popover from between the shafts of a milkwagon and had him trained to jump fences. Last week, Popover won second prize in the open-to-all jumping class at the distinguished Westchester County Horse Show in Rye, N. Y. The Flirt was first...
...with a touch of genius, married a young lady from Niagara Falls. Today the original son and his three half brothers are personages: 1) Publisher Charles Phelps Taft, 84, of the Cincinnati Times-Star; 2) U. S. Chief Justice and onetime U. S. President William Howard Taft, 70; 3) Potent Manhattan Lawyer Henry Waters Taft, 68; and 4) Headmaster Horace Button Taft, 66, of the Taft School, Watertown, Conn...