Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad, carved desk in the gloomy Palazzo Chigi lay incriminating documents, the report of an investigation which Il Duce had ordered into the affairs of one of the Fascist Government's leading fiscal advisers, the Chemical & Dye Tycoon of Northern Italy, potent Deputy Ernesto Belloni, recently Mayor of Milan, repeatedly assigned as an Italian expert at the War Debt aid Reparations conferences. Evidently the report on Signer Belloni was damning. With characteristic decision Il Duce dashed on paper an order dismissing the Dye Tycoon "from every political and public activity, indefinitely...
...Improvement of the Breed of Horses last week figuratively rubbed its hands. Its horse-racing season had opened. The fat figure of Harry ("Hot Dog") Stevens seemed to grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow, open-faced hacks...
Indeed, when seven members of California's Bohemian Club* were asked to write on a slip of paper the name of the most potent westerner of the present generation, five of the ballots bore the name of Paul Shoup...
...first place, it will list the securities of real estate corporations. Thus, for instance, Benjamin Winter, Inc., potent Park Avenue realty house, might well issue 100,000 common shares, 100,000 preferred and $1,000,000 in bonds. To be sure, there is nothing to prevent Benjamin Winter, Inc., from doing such financing without any exchange. But with 250 potent real estate houses all offering stocks, bonds and other securities in a recognized exchange devoted exclusively to realtors, the market for Winter securities would be better than if the financing was undertaken as an isolated effort. Furthermore, the Exchange will...
...Potent real estate operators appear generally to have commenced their careers as bewildered immigrants and to have proceeded through bewildering skyscrapers. Famed in Manhattan...