Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind Racketeer Flegenheimer, who was murdered in a Newark saloon, Mr. Dewey soon nosed out a notorious underworld lawyer, Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis. When relentless Tom Dewey announced that lurking behind Davis was the substantial figure of potent Tammany District Leader Jimmy Hines, whom he indicted as the policy racket's real boss (TIME, June 6), he made a real stir in city politics...
Secretary Ickes attacked Representative Smith for him. His slogan was: "A vote for Dodd is a vote for Roosevelt." But young Mr. Dodd was unknown, inexperienced, no political fireball. Mr. Smith, after four terms in the House, has a potent personal organization, allied with Senator Byrd's. He promised Virginians only that he would continue to vote his convictions, suh, as a good Virginian should. They renominated him by 3-to-1 over young Son Dodd...
...these traits are traceable to William McChesney Martin Sr. That Kentucky-born fundamentalist worked his way through law school by teaching, soon shifted from law to banking, has long been president of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. This is a high-sounding but not very potent job and the Martins continue to live quietly in the modest three-story house at No. 5055 Waterman Avenue, a nice but not ultra-fashionable district...
...Portugal's once potent empire, now shrunk to sixth largest in the world, Angola has long been the Cinderella colony. What little Portuguese and private funds were available went to develop Mozambique, on the other side of Africa. Discovered in 1482, Angola came into prominence in the 19th Century when colonists built up a lucrative slave trade, exporting Angola's Bantu blacks to Brazil. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1830, colonists gradually turned to agriculture, began to produce coffee, sugar, maize, palm oil, sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets...
Died. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, 70, onetime president (1915-16) of potent American Chemical Society, editor (1917-21) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, adviser to Chemical Foundation, Inc.. discoverer of a method for converting the South's cheap slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful of Dr. Herty's revolutionary developments in southern turpentine and pulp industries, grateful Georgians early this year named him "Man of the Year for Georgia and the South," dropped Court House flags to half-mast at his death...