Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married an ex-Follies girl in Manhattan, took her home to Asheville, was with her when she died there in 1934. Bob Reynolds busted North Carolina political tradition in 1932 by running for the Senate as a Wet, turned out Dry old Cam Morrison who had been a power in North Carolina for 30-odd years...
...Britons have of late forgiven Saint Gandhi his past sins as leader of the anti-British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...
Jesse James (Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly; TIME...
Bear Willkie lost his latest chance to get free last fortnight when the Supreme Court, without passing on TVA's constitutionality, rejected the attack of Commonwealth & Southern and other utility companies on TVA's competing with their established power lines (TIME, Feb. 6). This left the privately owned utilities the choice of selling out or competing eternally with the Government-the latter choice an obvious economic impossibility...
First proposal to sell out to TVA came from Willkie, early in 1934. All last year, he and TVA dickered sporadically over a fair price for Tennessee Electric Power Co., chief C. & S. subsidiary involved. The amount invested in Tennessee Electric Power's electric division was found by independent audit to be a net of $86,300,000. Mr. Lilienthal, mentioning depreciation, offered $55,000,000, presently raised...