Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends in power" speech "unfortunate." The election of no Senator was impugned and Senators Barkley of Kentucky and Stewart of Tennessee were described as ignorant of the WPA pressurizing in their behalf...
John Garner, who served 15 terms, 30 years in the House before he was elected Vice President, is Congress-hearted and Congress-minded. The inroads of executive power upon the powers of Congress have irked him sorely. He has fast friends and respectful admirers in both Houses. Since the Republican swing last fall, which weakened the Democratic party in local affairs* and made the Administration's majorities in Congress vulnerable to future coalitions of conservative Democrats and Republicans, John Garner is anxious not to have orders from the White House split the Democratic majorities in Congress. To avoid this...
...though to prove the old Texan's new power, Capitol Hill last week beheld an unusual spectacle. Soon after the hot Cabinet session, two Cabinet members called on the Senate's president in one day, hat in hand. One was Secretary Wallace of Agriculture, of whose acreage restrictions and proposed revival of processing taxes Mr. Garner disapproves. The other was Harry Hopkins, whose WPA performance will be mercilessly reviewed before the Senate confirms him as Secretary of Commerce...
...year ago, before Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. people became ultra-conscious of Europe and South America. Now the fleet's move has another significance: to bolster the President's "continental solidarity," and remind Europe's fascists that the U. S. is still a major power in the Atlantic...
Meanwhile, all Gibraltar had been aroused. Shells fell in the little village of Caleta, on the east side of the Rock, destroyed two houses, damaged a power plant, wounded four British subjects. General Sir Edmund Ironside, commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, sounded an alarm, called out the entire British garrison. The British destroyer Vanoc and a French destroyer, the Basque, went to investigate. Gibraltar's guns fired blank shells to warn the Rebel warships that they were firing on British territory...