Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entourage last week denied persistent reports that his health might prevent his return to duty. Henry Horner is Illinois' No. 1 Democrat by virtue of the drubbing he gave his erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances of reinstating himself as No. i at stake, the hefty, curly-headed, 62-year-old mayor did valiant battle with another Kelly-Nash deserter...
...morning. For that matter, he can just barely get up in the afternoon. He just loves to sleep. Now sleeping is no rare ailment at Harvard. The peculiar quality about this young man's ailment is that ordinary methods do not arouse him from slumber. The most potent and heavy-handed alarm clock, placed only a few inches from his ear, startles everyone else on the floor, but to our young man it is as soft breezes sighing in the trees...
...intelligentsia to realize its responsibilities. Civilization must be left to its own devices no longer. It is up to Phi Beta Kappa men to recognize their Key as the wise man's burden, which is altogether too ponderous to dangle from a mere watchchain, and altogether too potent to have no other...
Under Mexico's rigged political setup, the Presidential nominee of the Cárdenas-controlled Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM) is virtually certain of election and the candidate backed by the potent, 1,000,000-strong Mexican Confederation of Labor (CTM) is virtually certain to be nominated by the Party. Last week, although President Cárdenas still has 21 months to serve and the election is more than a year away, the CTM put its seal of approval on square-faced, bullnecked, 43-year-old General Manuel Avila Camacho, until recently Minister of National Defense...
Last week, American-Hawaiian and Luckenbach Steamship companies, largest and most potent in the conference, indignantly withdrew. They hoped that the U. S. Maritime Commission, having failed to persuade intercoastal lines to regulate their own rates, would end throat-cutting for all time by exerting its power to fix minimum tariffs, which dates back in 1933 but has never been exercised...