Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore the President must choose two men so potent that their personal prestige alone will cause their opinions to prevail. Sources of the highest authenticity affirmed, last week, that Calvin Coolidge had chosen John Pierpont Morgan and Owen D. Young, after obtaining assurance of their cooperation...
...that whereas some Congressmen represent less than that number of males and females, some represent a great many more. Notably, Congressman Crail of the Los Angeles-Hollywood district is the sole voice of 1,250,000 people, so that a vote in Los Angeles is only one-fifth as potent as in the average district. This inequality arises from the inevitable shifts in population?one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each...
...Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity at City Hall, and Mr. Patterson is busy with the weekly Liberty and New York Daily News and with extended airplane cruises...
Prior to sorting out events and titles, keen observers sharpened their wits by trying to identify as many face cards as possible in the following well shuffled hand of potent names...
...Spouse of James Simpson Jr.. son of James Simpson, potent president of Marshall Field...