Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy really spit 18-and 20-inch shells as reported in TIME, April 25, p. 8, col. 3 ? I have been out of touch with the Navy since the War but am of the opinion that 16-inch guns are the largest yet installed on our ships. However, more power to the Navy, and yourselves...
That if Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth should run for Congress she would certainly win; that most women now in Congress owe their position to being widows or wives of onetime Congressmen, not to their own merits; that women in Washington "pull the strings of power"-all this said Miss Vera Bloom last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace...
...result of this change the central board which recommend officials man take a corresponding action and appoint a man who will correspond to Langford but will have more power...
Just as there is honor among thieves, so is there quarrelling among booksellers. The American Association of Booksellers has "viewed with alarm" the growing power of such groups as the Book-Of-The-Month-Club and the several organizations which have followed in the wake of its success. The objection is raised on the grounds that such procedure consultutes nothing but artificial stimulation, and that there are many equally deserving candidates which are doomed never to win popularity simply because they have not been officially recognized as being among the "best...
...believe that your re-election would be in harmony with the spirit of-the common law which has given you your present power...