Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking heart, 27 department store operators got together to squelch union demands for a 35-hour week. Negotiations also stalled between unions and chain grocery store operators on the same issue. When the potent Waterfront Employers Association indicated it would adopt a strong line when its members' contracts with C.I.O. longshoremen expire September 30, gloomy San Franciscans (already faced with a shortage of drugs and liquor by the warehouse shutdown) began reminiscing about the 1934 General Strike...
...like glamor girls, are expert in staging acts to flatter and impress useful admirers. Last September Adolf Hitler staged one of his most effective when he entertained Mussolini in Berlin. Signor Mussolini who, isolated for nearly 15 years in Italy, had come to think of himself as the most potent man in Europe, was shocked into a warmer enthusiasm for his ally when he saw the magnificently trained, well-oiled military machine that Hitler turned out for his inspection. Last week Adolf Hitler, mindful of his other success, decided to play host again, for a similar useful purpose...
...grand review 117 ships of the German Navy sailed past the Führer and the Regent. Admiral Horthy was then permitted to inspect the brand new, Nazi-rebuilt defenses of the island of Helgoland, in the North Sea, once dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, now again a potent naval base...
...Another Deputy proposed that since France is the firm and potent friend of Switzerland, the safest place for war supplies would be in depots close to the French frontier...
...Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office is the awesome tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church which guards the integrity of Catholic faith & morals, deals with heresies (it once had charge of the Inquisition), handles mixed marriage cases, maintains the dread Index of Prohibited Books. So potent is the Holy Office that it is nominally headed, not by a Cardinal, like other congregations, but by the Pope himself. Last week the Holy Office-with or without the knowledge of Pope Pius XI-was in the centre of a holy row, kicked up by a devoted but backboned British convert...