Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress created the job of U. S. Comptroller General and gave him the duty of passing on all Government expenditures to make sure they conformed to the law. So Congress tried to keep the power of the purse in its own hands. Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to spend was an awful series of squabbles between the open-handed New Deal and crusty Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. When Mr. McCarl's 15-year term of office expired two and a half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill...
...This year will be the biggest in naval construction since 1919. Every naval power is building huge battleships, talked of not long ago as obsolete because of the advance of the airplane...
Among many Frenchmen there rose a feeling that Premier Daladier, by a few strokes of the pen at Munich, had turned France into a second-rate power. Aping Mussolini in his gestures and copying triumphant Hitler's shouting complex, the once liberal Daladier at year's end was reduced to using parliamentary tricks to keep...
...political career began in 1919 when he became Member No. 7 of the midget German Labor Party. Discovering his powers of oratory, Hitler soon became the party's leader, changed its name to the National Socialist German Labor Party, wrote its antiSemitic, antidemocratic, authoritarian program. The party's first mass meeting took place in Munich in February 1920. The leader intended to participate in a monarchist attempt to seize power a month later; but for this abortive Putsch Führer Hitler arrived too late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?provided...
...electoral strength. In the Reichstag elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...