Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Magna Charta gave the power and prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking...
Last week he lost the first round of a legal bout he has vowed to carry to the Supreme Court. Judge George C. Taylor of Federal District Court in Knoxville ruled that the President "has the power of removal as an incident to the power of appointment," but admitted that previous Supreme Court decisions in the Myers and Humphrey cases have left "a field of doubt" for future exploration. Mr. Morgan's attorneys, still challenging the President's power of removal and seeking $2,961.66 in back salary for the explosive old engineer and educator, promised an appeal...
...sailed for Oslo, he confidently left in the hands of the House Foreign Affairs Committee a bill proposing a $50,000 appropriation for a 1940 session of the Union in the U. S. In choosing his fellow junketeers, happy Mr. Fish overlooked Massachusetts' bush-bearded George Tinkham, a power on the House committee and inordinately fond of travel. As Congress adjourned, Mr. Tinkham was able to cable Mr. Fish: "We have thrown your invitation in the wastebasket...
When the U. S. again goes to war, three master agencies will rise overnight in Washington: 1) a Selective Service Administration, to draft man power; 2) a War Resources Administration, to draft and rule industry for the duration; 3) a Public Relations Administration, to mold the mass U. S. mind to the uses of war. Last week the top personnel of the Resources Administration was selected...
...that some of the university's $24,000,000 in seasoned bonds and first mortgages should be invested in common stocks. Burden of his testimony was what already worried many another custodian of trust funds: devaluation of the dollar and inflation of bank credit had cut the purchasing power of income from fixed-income investments; currency inflation (if it came) might reduce the real value of such trust funds to a trifle...