Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Oklahoma rumbled the Roosevelt special. There, silver-crowned Senator Elmer Thomas is engaged in a three-cornered fight with oil-rich Governor Ernest Marland and Indian-blooded Representative Gomer Smith. To potent Governor Marland the President was most polite. Upon Gomer Smith, loud exploiter of Townsend Plan promises, he cracked down by inference, quoting Roosevelt I on the "lunatic fringe." Senator Thomas was allowed to ride on the Presidential train (but so was Governor Marland), was called "my old friend," described as "of enormous help ... in keeping me advised as to the needs of the State...
...take a number, must carry a card. Any farmer who wants to do so may grow all the cotton he pleases, store it in his barn, light a cigar with his AAA pasteboard and go unpunished. Mr. Wallace simply told cotton buyers, who are not a big or politically potent class, that upon them rests the burden of properly identifying the cotton. Furthermore, buyers, on pain of $500 fine, must strictly observe an AAA color line...
...years been at the top of North Dakota's political heap. But Governor Langer (whom the Federal Government tried, and failed, to jail in 1934 for openly levying on Relief clients for his campaign funds), called a demagogue by his opponents, a champion by his friends, is a potent vote getter. Mr. Langer, once Mr. Nye's good friend, called him a Peace "racketeer," a Washington nonentity who got nothing for his State. Mr. Nye, who has built up his own Progressive Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League to Mr. Langer, retorted that the Langer...
...Tribuna openly boasted of Italian planes from Italian-held Majorca sinking 18 ships in 19 days. Rome's Giornale d'Italia likewise boasted five foreign ships bombed by Italian planes. Regardless of this, Britain's "realistic" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is Italy's most potent English friend. On the Anglo-Italian agreement of last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked Neville Chamberlain's political life. That life has become closer & closer to jeopardy recently as popular and Parliamentary indignation rose (see p. 21) over...
President Roosevelt, after taking counsel with his Cabinet, last week picked the six members from his executive branches who will sit with six from Congress on the potent temporary National Economic Committee, better known as the Monopoly Investigation (TIME, June 20). Because the President originally asked for an all-executive committee, because Congress kept control of only one-fifth of the $500,000 expense money it voted, and because of the six Congress members at least one, Representative Eicher of Iowa, is an Administration wheelhorse, the six executives will doubtless dominate the committee's policy. Significantly, not the President...