Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other speakers. Instead, he held himself erect and delivered what all critics agreed was the most intelligently well-bred speech of either of the big conventions. He recited his friend's fitness for office in terms of his record in office. He offered him as a governor who had "power to impart knowledge of, and create interest in, government." He said, in an even voice that was more persuasive than any Bryanesque blaring could have been, that his friend had "that quality of soul which makes a man loved ... a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble...
...annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment, he rose to be a political power through the railroad labor unions. Then, with gunmen at his command, he pursued the "racket" of organizing other unions. Percentages of the dues kept "Big Tim" and his pretty-doll wife in style. But evidently someone else needed the percentages from the cleaners and dyers, because one night last week, after...
...Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré have confidently prophesied that his Cabinet would fall soon after he should have put the franc back on a gold basis-a deed done last fortnight (TIME, July 2). Even staunchest friends feared, last week, for the grizzled statesman's grip on Power. His famed Cabinet of Sacred Union comprises representatives of parties bitterly opposed, who laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French politicians have not lost...
...Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., has made the last wash a blueing process. The idea: to make coal attractive, to give it advertising appeal under the trade name of "Blue Diamond." The dyeing process costs only three or four cents a ton, does not impair the heating power of coal...
International Paper Co. of Newfoundland Ltd. and Newfoundland Power and Paper...