Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the businesslike Admiral has achieved de facto recognition of the Turkish Government by the U. S. President Coolidge will assumedly make use of his power to appoint an ambassador without consulting the Senate. Between them the President and the Admiral will have largely circumvented the Senate's obstinate refusal to ratify the Treaty of Lausanne...
...biggest ships spat red and yellow fire . . . boom . . . boom . . . boom . . . Twenty-one guns they fired, the full presidential salute. It was for Louis Borno, President of the Negro Republic of Haiti (see p. 6). From the deck of the Trenton he watched the U. S. display its naval power while he chatted with Theodore Douglas Robinson, fourth Roosevelt to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They saw the greatest force of U. S. sailors that has ever been assembled, the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets. Fifteen Admirals took part in the review; Admiral Hughes commanded...
...commanded in one case $5,000 a day, that Lawyer Hughes had received $100,000 for a single case. Both lawyers once ran for President and were defeated: Mr. Hughes in 1916, as the Republican candidate, Mr. Davis in 1924 on the Democratic ticket. Both illustrate the earnings-power of men in public life...
...Latin Europeans viewed askance last week an invitation transmitted by the U. S. State Department to France and Italy suggesting that "observers" from those nations would be welcome at the projected Coolidge Three-Power naval disarmament parley (TIME, Feb. 21) of the U. S., Britain and Japan. Newspapers in Paris and Rome seemed predominantly against the sending of "observers" by their Governments, but Rome made no official reply last week...
...near as I can explain it, Gandhi was a god in the eyes of the people. That is what the word 'Mahatma' signifies. Men working on the roadside, clerks in offices, great potentates?all knew Gandhi and respected his immense power. He was the leader of that great anti-British policy of noncooperation which had as its aim making it impossible for England to rule India...