Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week. Charles Hayden, affable, playful, cultured and immensely able head of an immensely potent firm of private bankers, Hayden, Stone & Co.; Charles Hayden, keen bridge player and a director of probably more famed companies than any other financier, took an immensely important command in the Republican political army. He agreed to collect the money from New York State, from which most of the money must come. Mr. Hayden did not apologize; he was proud to serve. Mr. Hayden did not resign anything; no one even remotely hinted that he should. He had just as much right as any truck...
...Muscle Shoals measure calling for Federal instead of private operation. He chose for Secretary of the Interior and ex-officio member of the Federal Power Commission, a man, Roy Owen West, who has long been the friend and frequently the employe of Samuel Insull of Chicago, the most potent public utility privateer of them...
...quit because he was afraid of going stark, staring mad. This school had faith in the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. These potent papers quoted Tunney as he expanded on an incident which occurred while he was training for his second fight with Jack Dempsey...
...Memorable, probably, was the formation of three new corporations by potent International Telephone and Telegraph Co. Under the names of International Cables Corp., International Communications Corp., International Radio Corp., the new companies will operate telephone, telegraph and cable lines, wireless systems, television and telephoto transmission (much of which I. T. & T. already does). The object of ponderous incorporation, the functions of the different units, were not clarified by either of the Brothers Behn...
Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio...