Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Lasser, who (like Aubrey Williams, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt) regards work-reliefers as an established U. S. economic class, and sees himself as their established, politically potent leader, this was bitter. He asserted that his Alliance would go ahead and collect its fund anyway "from small businessmen, professional groups, and sympathetic organizations, together with voluntary contributions from members...
...exalted as Tammany Mayor James J. Walker, who resigned under fire from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. But, running his district like a patriarch for a quarter-century, passing out countless Christmas turkeys and good jobs at his Monongahela Democratic Club, he has been a potent voice in Tammany's inner councils, was shrewd enough to make with Franklin Roosevelt an early peace which assured his district a healthy share of New Deal patronage in years that have been lean for most Tammany bigwigs...
...Manhattan. Purgee O'Connor, chairman of the potent House Rules Committee, made frantic efforts to get the Republicans to back him against the White House candidate, one James H. Fay, deputy internal revenue collector. The Republicans decided he savored too strongly of Tammany Hall, last week named their own primary candidate: Allen Welsh Dulles, 45, lawyer, onetime (1916-26) State Department underling...
...again he might choose Luis Rodriguez as his successor. Another politico who might try to grab the job is Mexico's loudmouthed, posturing, Moscow-visiting Vicente Lombardo Toledano. He claims to lead 1,000,000 organized proletarians in his Confederation of Mexican Workers-by far the most potent force of its kind in the country. It was the President's zeal to show the proletariat that he would do as much for it as he is doing for the peasantry which caused him last spring abruptly to pick the oil Apple in the Mexican Eden-i.e., confiscate...
...three years of record spending that the army has about half the material it needs as a minimum for M Day action. He calculates that the U. S. must spend at least $142,000,000 more to put its army on a "sensible" preparatory footing. Last spring, with the potent help of a White House message, he persuaded Congress to meet the principal deficiency -in anti-aircraft equipment. In Malin Craig's last year the army is spending or allotting $23,000,000 for 230 modern, mobile anti-aircraft guns, with supplementary searchlights, target detectors, etc. etc. Another...