Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans. While in Manhattan, Nominee Smith talked with potent Democrats from far and near. It appeared that the chief campaign wizard of the Brown Derby would be the nominee himself. A speaking tour of East Coast, West Coast, all around the land was in the mapping...
...ever so lightly, and that other something starts, flames, comes leaping back. "There is about him a touch of that agelessness that goes with genius. . . . "... One gets an impression of exceptional force, of honesty, intelligence and absence of flubdub and pretense. . . . ". . . Potentialities of responsive and responsible leadership." The potent Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, 26 strong, last week published an editorial saying: "An independent newspaper is not a party organ. In supporting Hoover, we will not align ourselves as the enemy or traducer of the good and able man who is his opponent. "We want to see Hoover...
...logic" of the Robinson nomination was, of course: that he is Dry, Methodist, Southern; that he matches Nominee Curtis for attracting the farm vote; that his nomination was endorsed by most Democratic Senators, potent in their home territories; that his warm, rugged personality and impressive party record bolster the ticket...
Hoover v. Warren. Potent U. S. pacifist groups, ably spokesmanned by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, appear to have been a decisive factor in reversing the attitude of Monsignor Ladeuze. He was given aid and comfort in his new stand, a month ago, by U. S. Candidate for President Herbert Hoover, who cabled: "The University of Louvain owns the new library and has undeniable jurisdiction connected with inscription and memorials. . . . Representing the donor of the larger share of funds employed in building library, I suggest you obtain immediate settlement present controversy on lines which will eliminate war bitterness...
...Northumberland?". . . "Who's for Rothermere?" Thus the cries, last fortnight, of partisans of two potent peers, goliaths of British journalism, engaged in a battle to the death. It was Northumberland v. Rothermere, 8th Duke v. ist Viscount, a Percy v. a Harmsworth, the ultraconservative London Morning Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity...