Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not be hard for President Coolidge to reencourage the cruiser bill. It was recommended by his Secretary of the Navy originally. The combination of a Coolidge cruiser bill, a bill meant for national defense, and a peace treaty meant to make national defence unnecessary is paradoxical but potent...
Gangs. Judge Edwin 0. Lewis of Quarter Sessions Court charged the Grand Jury. With District Attorney John Monaghan, he started an investigation of the crimes.* They learned of three Philadelphia liquor gangs: 1) the pioneer, potent Duffys; 2) the antagonistic O'Leary's; 3) the American Blackies...
...Ogden Livingston Mills, now Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Pratt vaunts no ambitions beyond representing the People in the Lower House-and living in official Washington. Mr. Phelps hopes, after serving in the House, to be Manhattan's, and perhaps New York State's, great and potent Republican Boss...
...Even potent James Henry Thomas, famed "Balance Wheel of British Labor," was without his usual dynamic optimism as he informed the Congress that the Railway Men's Unions, of which he is General Secretary, are now slightly dwindling in membership. "People," said Mr. Thomas indignantly, "tell the workers not to believe what their leaders say, and say that the leaders have sold them." It is Mr. Thomas who has risen from a grimy engineer's cab to a snug little mansion with flagstone paths in the garden; to playing bridge with Peers; and to enjoying an occasional audience...
Francisco came potent Archbishop Edward J. Hanna; from New Zealand came Mita Taupopoki, chief of the Arawa tribe of Maoris, once the most warlike tribe in New Zealand; from Manhattan came Bishop John J. Dunn, who brought greetings, regrets from Patrick Cardinal Hayes; from many another spot came many another layman & divine. As they came to Chicago in 1926 and will go to Carthage, North Africa, in 1930, so they flocked to the 29th Eucharistic Congress in Australia...