Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips to achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From 1917 to 1927 Mr. Phillips' prices were exorbitant. Lawyer Buckner dramatically displayed them on a chart. Mr. Connolly had the power to jockey contracts. He seemed to have awarded them as he wished. He mysteriously acquired thousands of dollars. Mr. Connolly, said many, looked like material for a long-time jailbird...
Last March, by act of God and the frailty of human works, 350 persons were killed when the St. Francis dam in Ventura county, Calif., burst. Last week, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Ventura, basing the value of life upon the earning power of the dead, made settlements to heirs of between $11,000 and $20,000 per victim. Some heirs, dissatisfied, were suing for as high as $100,000 per adult victim, $35,000 per child victim. A firm of Stockton lawyers was asking one-third of these sums for handling the suits...
...toms beat ceaseless din as Edward of Wales & Party approached, last week, the stronghold of that quaint, Afrlc potentate, H. H. Daudi Chau, the Kabaka of Buganda, East Africa. Though subservient to Great Britain, the Kabaka exercises many a right and power over his own people. Aloof, he resides within a spacious palace, surrounded by a woven fence of elephant grass, two miles in circumference and 15 feet high...
Later on, it appeared that the agonies of the elderly princess were quite unnecessary. The soldier was no cardsharper but a clever commoner who had devised this means of punishing the young princess for being cruel to him-a means also of exhibiting the soothing power of wickedness upon recalcitrant women. In the last act it appears that the soldier has triumphed upon the lady who insulted him in the first. Though she pleads with him not to go away, he has become arrogant now and leaves her though he loves...
...Carnegie Institute's annual international exhibition at Pittsburgh is one of the world's most important affairs. Yet at this year's opening last week, with 253 European and 128 U. S. paintings shown, little brilliancy, little power appeared...