Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent commentator on the treaty was Signor Arnaldo Mussolini, editor of Il Popolo d'ltalia, founded by his brother, Signor Benito Mussolini...
Good President Hainisch, snowy of beard, kindly of eye, fancier of prize cows (TIME, April 2) has little to do except sign bills and graciously conduct state functions. In bygone years Frau und Mutter Hainisch, spouse of a potent industrialist, vigorously directed her son's education at Leipzig and his subsequent career in the courtly civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology...
From Reuben H. Donnelley, potent publisher: "The only difference between gangsters in New York and in Chicago is that here we ostracize them, while in New York they make them club members...
Kotaro Wakao, young, rich, potent Japanese businessman sported a little with Manhattan newspapermen last week. Overworked, he was in the U. S. as part of a half-year furlough from affairs.* Energetic he took his relaxation by studying U. S. factories that he had not seen a decade ago. At that time he studied at Columbia University. Courteous, he visited and thanked bankers who this spring sold $70,000,000 bonds of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. (TIME, June 18). Kotaro Wakao's father, Shohachi Wakao, is Tokyo Electric's president. Discerning international bankers...
Died. James Bowron, 84, chairman, acting president & director of the Gulf States Steel Corp., potent steel entrepreneur in Alabama; of heart disease; in Birmingham...