Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Vienna last week, three days ahead of the Feldmarschall, charged German Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Europe's most unorthodox and potent economic prestidigitator. He has kept on for so many years pulling steel and cannon out of the hat of virtually busted Germany, that what he can do with a Greater Germany, now not quite so busted by reason of the addition of Austria, simply remains to be seen. Dr. Schacht took Austria's gold last week as a matter of course and no Austrian protest was recorded...
...once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic." Last week, however, a potent Catholic prelate, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England, wrote his clergy informing them that no Catholic might join the Group...
...Agreed potent London Publisher Lord Beaverbrook last week: "There will be no war in Europe this year or next year either...
...shock, the terrific impact of this realization upon mystic, intuitive Dictator Hitler produced one of those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining...
...bagged enough businesses in his 58 years to be an ace at U. S. finance. A Chicago reporter, he founded Yellow Cab Co. in 1915, sold most of it to General Motors Corp. ten years later for $43,000,000. Currently he is a partner of Lehman Bros., potent Wall Street investment house which controls Transcontinental & Western Air. For several months Aces Hertz and Rickenbacker have been engaged in an air duel which was small stuff for Ace Hertz but big for Ace Rickenbacker. Last week it became apparent that "Eddie" Rickenbacker had won, as North American Aviation, Inc., which...