Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil. His ascent to power in the Senate was steady and unspectacular. When North Dakota in 1922 retired Porter James McCumber from the Senate, Senator Smoot slipped his awkward frame into the chairman's seat of the potent Finance Committee?a legislative eminence comparable to the religious height of Mormon Apostle. Ever since...
...refined oil and gasoline. Unsentimental businessmen rose to curse him with the charge that he was inflicting the state with a manufacturers' tax which would drive industry out of Louisiana. The Long oil tax caused the impeachment explosion. He was charged with: 1) Using his ap pointive power to control the courts; 2) Attempting to bribe legislators with patronage promises; 3) Employing the militia to loot and pillage private property; 4) Carrying concealed weapons; 5) Deporting himself scandalously at a New Orleans "studio" party; 6) Demolishing the Executive Mansion and disposing of its furniture; 7) Putting...
...cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently, however, Il Duce has restored a mite of earthly authority to Il Papa (TIME, Feb. 18), and last week purring cinema machines proved how mountainous is the Pontiff's gratitude to the Dictator. Especially vivid and stirring were the footages showing Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice...
...small, wiry, grey-haired millionaire drove a leaping spray-plumed power boat up and down Indian Creek in Florida a little more than a week ago at the average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend...
...first half the game was to a great extent listless and uninteresting. The "Michigan" players showed promise of gaining their first victory when they scored two safeties giving them a lead of four points which looked good in view of the fact that neither team was showing much offensive power. Sumner Putnam '31 had been downed behind his own line to give the first safety while a blocked kick by F. S. Davis '30 was directly responsible for the other...