Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only man around the table who had openers." "Boss" Brennan occasionally takes a little time off from poker, pinochle, politics, and business to read good books. It was in 1920 that this pinky-bald, bushy-eyebrowed, double- chinned, portly humorist first began to be a source of power and worry to the Democratic national party. At the San Francisco con vention he vexed William G. McAdoo, helped nominate James M. Cox and forced the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the ticket. People asked, "Who is this man Brennan who deals with mighty names?" They couldn't find...
When the Nine Power Chinese Customs Conference assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.) its august corps of diplomats and experts remarked with favor upon the clear crispness of the air, the unexpected comfort of their quarters, the warm hospitality of foreigners resident in Peking. Came winter and the delegates turned their collars up, hovered o'er inadequate stoves. Came spring, and blinding sandstorms swept the city, rasped the delegates' throats with an abrasive fog. Came summer, blazing, searing. Still the accomplishments of the conference were almost nil. Little or nothing has been accomplished because the Government...
...upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still one. of the most potent in Germany. Frenchmen have...
...Frederick Whyte: "It is very doubtful whether the united armies of Asia could ever be set in motion. Such an enterprise implies a unity of purpose of which there is no sign, and therefore, to add up the millions of China and India and then multiply them by the power of Japan, is the arithmetic of bedlam...
...French statesmen are more genuinely beloved. While his fellows clawed and slashed their bitter tscandal-strewn way to power, Gaston Doumergue disarmed his enemies and heartened his friends with a smile, proved by daily application his notable if not transcendent abilities, and was happily wafted up to the Presidency...