Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, therefore, the Soviet Central Executive Committee passed two potent anti-Baptist laws. One law declared that "the activity of all religious units be confined to the exercise of religion, and be not permitted any economic or cultural work which exceeds the limits of their ministry to the spiritual needs of Soviet citizens." Forbidden, therefore, is all Baptist social welfare or recreation work; permitted is nothing but Sunday preaching, hymn-singing...
...molds glow in the darkness like monuments of hardened fire. Thus steel to the steelworker. But to the steel-tycoon, to U. S. business & finance in general, it is gold that melts in the furnace and earnings that spark from the spout. To Hoboken this week went the most potent of steelmen for the annual stockholders' meeting of the most gilded of steel companies. Had all U. S. Steel Corp. stock owners attended, those present would have totaled 100,000. Most, however, stayed at home; all knew that the main business of the meeting was to increase authorized common...
Eagerly awaited was the result of Tuesday's smaller meeting of Steel's potent directors. By night every U. S. broker, most Steel stockholders, knew they could buy, at $140, one new share for every seven shares held. With Steel closing...
Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto...
...International Paper & Power are New England Power Co. and several similar public utilities operating within the sphere of influence of the Herald and Traveler. I. P. & P. is primarily a power combine nowadays, affiliated through such men as it placed in charge of the Herald and Traveler with potent finance (Old Colony Trust Co., First National Bank, Harris Forbes & Co.), with potent industry (United Shoe Machinery Corp.), with potent traction interests (New York, New Haven & Hartford...