Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the subject became WPA, he agreed that his deputy, Aubrey ("Keep our friends in power") Williams, had been "indiscreet," insisted that Mr. Williams was "a very great man" entitled to at least one indiscretion. He refused to apologize for his administration of Relief, admitted that had he the same road to Tavel again, he would not make any political speeches...
Senator Bailey: You will agree that this set-up [WPA as a whole] had the potentiality of tremendous political power...
...more than a year I have warned that behind the flood control, behind the power development, was a deliberate attempt . . . for a little group of men to run things their way-good sometimes, bad sometimes-but always their way-forgetting that a check with the homefolks and their wishes is not only good practical horse sense but the very essence of democracy...
...York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...
Those guns could be supplied only from abroad. At week's end the brightest spot on the Loyalist horizon was Paris. There the executive committee of Premier Edouard Daladier's Radical Socialist Party-without whose support he cannot remain in power-passed with only one dissenting vote a resolution asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier...