Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salary. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde had suggested that the salary of the chairman of the proposed Federal Farm Board be left to the President to fix, on the ground that he could thus obtain the services of a "high-powered" man who could be induced to take this job without financial sacrifice. The House bill authorized presidential leeway. So did the Senate bill until last week, when the Senate, a suspicious body, voted 46 to 32 to hold the board chairman's salary down to $12,000. Alarmed Senators claimed the President should not have such power, warned that...
...front cover) It is sometimes said that for prestige and power, for responsibility and reward, the three "biggest" elective offices in the U. S. are: 1) President of the U. S.; 2) Governor of the State of New York; 3) Mayor of the City of New York. Job No. 2 sometimes leads on to Job No. i (Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt). Sometimes it does not lead there (Hughes, Smith). From Job No. 3, however, since the rechartering of New York City (1898), no man has advanced from...
Second, The question of reducing land armaments is considered more or less extraneous to U. S. interests and easily postponable-since the U. S. is primarily (in peace time) a naval power...
...hubbub of British politics the figure of bob-haired David Lloyd George grows daily clearer. Sunk into comparative obscurity six months ago, his theatrically effective plans for the relief of unemployment (TIME, March 11) may win enough seats for the despised Liberals to give them the balance of power in parliamentary debates between Conservatives and Laborites, both numerically more potent...
Comrade Zinoviev fell into the bad graces of the Soviet Government about the same time as did Leon Trotsky, but unlike Trotsky he crawled back into the Soviet's good graces. Devoid of power, he remained in the party; in Russia only a member of "the party" can hold office...