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Word: power (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strawbridge's plan, refinement is the keynote, for she proposes "no spectacular crusade, no public meetings, no newspaper publicity-nothing of that sort at all. My thought is simply that if people whose wealth and position clothe them with the power of example can be induced to set an example, as Mrs. Mc-Lean is trying to do, we could be of inestimable aid to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: It Isn't Done | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...might easily have been mistaken for a successful doctor or a famed lawyer. But he was neither. He was Clarence True Wilson, A. B., B. D., Ph. B., D. D., LL. D., executive secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a power in U. S. Drys, Consolidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Methodist Methods | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Married. Frank D. Comerford, 36, president of New England Power Association, vice president and treasurer of International Paper & Power Co., and a Miss Mary McLaughlin of Worcester and Boston; in Vatican City. It was the first U. S. wedding in the new-made Papal State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

More recently (TIME, June 17) contracts have been let to other U. S. corporations-for a 100-million-dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine (to be the world's largest); for steel mills, coal mines, apartment houses in Moscow, tractor factories at Stalingrad, etc. etc. After 1933, Industrializer Stalin promises, if there is still necessity, to turn to lesser tasks-such as keeping the population supplied with food and clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Calico in Five Years | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Mohawk Hudson Power Corp.: Serving Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, many another New York city. Board Chairman is Charles S. Brewer; directorate includes Statistician Roger W. Babson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, also Messrs. Machold and Carlisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Utility Merger | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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