Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Federal power developments and operation should be undertaken at Muscle Shoals and Boulder...
...been nominated for the most important position in the world. Your great ability and your wide experience will enable you to serve our party and our country with marked distinction. I wish you all the success that your heart could desire. May God continue to bestow upon you the power to do your duty."* Calvin Coolidge to Herbert Clark Hoover, via telegraph...
...whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. It conferred upon me the mission to administer America's response to the appeal of afflicted nations during the War. It has called me into two Cabinets of two Presidents. By these experiences I have observed the burdens and responsibilities of the greatest office in the world. That office touches the happiness of every home. It deals with the peace of nations. No man could think of it except in terms of solemn consecration...
...government is more than administration; it is power for leadership and co-operation with the forces of business and cultural life in city, town and countryside. The presidency is more than executive responsibility. It is the inspiring symbol of all that is highest in America's purposes and ideals...
Last week on the Million Dollar Pier at Atlantic City, N. J., before 10,000 utility-men, and with more formality, Preston S. Arkwright (now president of the Georgia Power Co.) was installed as president of the National Electric Light Association...