Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden fully recognized the Thompson power. Last fortnight, he was reported to have approached the mighty Mayor through their mutual half-friend, Governor Len Small. These three had no trouble agreeing that the G. O. P. must nominate a Midwestern man in 1928, but on Mr. Lowden's candidacy Mayor Thompson turned down two large, eloquent thumbs. A day or two later, in Washington, Mayor Thompson said: "What sort of a guy is Senator Curtis?* I want to get a line on him. He looks pretty good...
...favor, therefore, the mobilizing of every ounce of power and political efficiency that we have to enforce this amendment. I would not compromise upon the subject in any way, shape or form...
...brother, abdicating, nominated him as his successor, a choice that the College of Ulemas (wise men, meaning the Mohammedan religious heirarchy) seconded. But Mulai Yusef had had no thoughts of ruling Morocco and thus without any training orexperience he found himself walking under the Shereefian umbrella, the symbol of power in Morocco (equivalent to the sceptre in occidental countries...
Actor Campbell Gullan performs notably as the jealous huband exercising his shoddy, maniacal little power over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...Raskob took last week's occasion to say also: "Everything indicates that 1928 will witness the greatest prosperity our country has ever enjoyed. There is little, if any, inflation anywhere, an abundance of credit, great farm purchasing power as a result of good crops and prices, and my prediction is that with the Ford Motor Co. in production the automobile industry will produce 5,000,000 units in 1928, as against 3,500,000 this year, and this gain of about 40% will add tremendous impetus to an otherwise prosperous condition...