Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most potent men in China, one of the most trusted advisers of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, is "Organizer Chen Li-fu" as he likes to be called. In organizing the "New Life Movement," the "Culture Control Movement" and other causes dear to the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang right down to the "Read-a-Book Movement," no Chinese has won more kudos than Organizer Chen. Last week Hankow correspondents asked the Great Organizer to confirm or deny persistent rumors in high Chinese quarters that he has been advising the Generalissimo to make peace with Japan. Replied Chen Li-fu: "Our fundamental policy...
Only one remotely likely to come home without the rest of C.I.O. is the rich, potent International Ladies Garment Workers of America, whose President David Dubinsky has summoned his executive board to decide whether to participate in C.I.O.'s first convention next month. Last week Mr. Dubinsky's Justice plugged editorially for intervention by Mr. Roosevelt...
During the past three years. Ford Motor Co., although its big River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again...
...ashcan Stanley Baldwin, would now like to ashcan Neville Chamberlain. It was no worker but an especially gilded British aristocrat, the husband of Mayfair's glamorous Lady Diana ("The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle") Duff Cooper, who was first in London to take up potent cudgels against the Prime Minister (see p. 19) by resigning from the Cabinet...
...winter, after an episcopate of 20 years, will be succeeded by Bishop Block. Chubby-chinned, Washington-born Dr. Block, who admits to being "outrageously vigorous," was for 13 years rector of St. Michael & St. George's Church in St. Louis, is a member of his church's potent National Council...