Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops were called out was over, and almost all of them had been sent home. This kind of law Governor McNutt maintained for at least two years in Sullivan County, Ind. and for some six to eight months in Terre Haute. Under this, a major of militia had power superior to all local authorities and courts; he could and did order men to be held for various alleged offenses, including street corner speaking, subject, not to civil law, but to a military court...
...Governor's power to establish such military rule, under his own discretion, was sustained in the lower courts and was never properly fought out through the higher courts. Labor was, of course, opposed to this semi-Fascist arrangement, but for various reasons did not make, by any means, the vigorous fight that should have been made...
...paved the way for denunciation by the Administration of the 1911 trade & navigation treaty with Japan. Gallup polls showing 51% of the voters in favor of clamping down on war materials for Japan assured Mr. Roosevelt that this was a popular thing to do. His own bent in international power politics made it desirable. He was glad to get out of the public doghouse...
...Today Wendell Willkie is the biggest political figure in U. S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par") is his business, but power in the general sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy. Free enterprise, free competition and free trade are his tenets for raising the economic standards of society...
...lieu of taxes TVA pays the States in its area 5 % of gross receipts from power sales...