Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington he rules a great domain. To begin with he is the President's official landlord, charged with the maintenance of the White House. He is a potent member of these Commissions: Arlington Bridge, National Capital Park & Planning, Public Buildings, District of Columbia Zoning. His predecessor, Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, retired in 1926 to go and be Cincinnati's $25,000-per-year city manager, a post he still fills to the greater glory of Cincinnati and himself...
Henry Mond and Jenny Lee. Britain's most potent industrialist, Lord Melchett, saw his son, the Hon. Henry Mond, capture a seat for the Conservatives last week, by 3,000 plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny...
Gamle Oslo. Until last week no royal marriage had taken place in Oslo since the 16th Century, when King James VI of Scotland there espoused Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway in 1589. Historic Gamle† Oslo was founded by potent Harold Haardraada about 1050, and petite Princess Martha comes to reign-eventually-over a proud little city which was already old when her own rich and extensive Stockholm was founded upon mud flats and granite in 1255 by Birger, Jarl (Earl) of Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall...
...Times and the London Times a series of testimonial advertisements so ingenious as to command the instant admiration of U.S. advertising men, to whom British advertising is often a source of amusement. The Harrods series was in fact posted on the bulletin board of the J. Walter Thompson Co., potent Manhattan agency...
Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...