Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldiers (at first mostly castrated personal slaves, later conscripts and sons of subject Christians) of the Turkish Sultans from the 14th to 19th Centuries, the Janizaries became so potent that, when they revolted in 1826, thousands of them had to be killed, the rest dispersed, their organization abolished. Says Tommy Corcoran: "We welcome the term. . . . They were really the Civil Service of the Ottoman Empire...
Many a Congressman, full of sound & fury, tells the home folks what he is going to do at the next session. Often his remarks are for political drama and home consumption only. It is otherwise with Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the potent Senate Finance Committee. Usually cautious about what he says, he usually means it when he says it. Last week at a meeting of the Democratic State Committee in Jackson. Miss., he spoke. His flat announcement...
There is no evidence that Herr Hitler thinks Frau Ludendorff an eccentric and she thinks "Germany is Paradise." So does potent Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the Labor Front into which 20,500,000 Ger man workers have been mustered. Keynoted Orator Ley last week as 1,500,000 Nazis began heading toward the Parteitag: "If there is a Paradise, I feel sure it cannot be more beautiful than National Socialist Germany! . . . There are persons who preach to a snickering audience that: 'Faith moves Mountains.' This is said to have happened 2,000 years ago. Now National Socialism...
...Netherlands, which kept out of war with Great Britain during the Boer War (Netherlanders expressed sympathy for the Boers) and stayed neutral in the World War, the prime issue today is peace. Although The Netherlands is sandwiched against aggressive Germany, and Japan is looking hungrily at the potent Netherlands Indies, Her Majesty radiorated confidently: "The peoples of the world are still suffering the consequences of the World War, but I feel convinced that all dispute and trouble can be settled with good will and united effort." But shrewd Queen Wilhelmina, with a good share of her $5,000,000 annual...
Named Minister of Eire to the U. S. was Robert Brennan, the Eire legation's chargé d'affaires in Washington since Minister Michael MacWhite was transferred to Rome last March. In 1916 Minister Brennan was condemned to death for his potent activities in the abortive Sinn Fein rebellion, saved by a commutation few minutes before it was his turn to be shot...