Word: puissante
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...ruled by Standard of California, the Midwest by Standard of Indiana, New England and the Atlantic Seaboard by Standard of New York and Standard of New Jersey. Each agreed to keep out of the other's backyard. The backyards became less clearly defined when huge, puissant Standard Oil of New Jersey chafed under restrictions limiting its domestic retail market while non-Rockefeller competitors like Texaco and British-controlled Shell could rove the whole union. In 1929 President Walter C. Teagle stepped out of bounds to acquire a company (Beacon Oil) with retail outlets in New England, province of Standard...
...thousand times no! This piece of misplaced sculptural enthusiasm has one arm somewhat "outstretched," the other hangs at its side with a clenched hand holding a scroll. . . . Should a man by chance hit upon the one available arm its angle would chute him off into space. . . . TIME may be puissant but can it make a bronze statue move its arms to save a veteran...
...Pope'' of the Roman Catholic Church is that most puissant Cardinal in charge of its vast foreign missions-the prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith. Present "Red Pope" is Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, bald, round-faced Roman who from 1922 to 1933 was Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D. C. In pious sorrow last week the Cardinal-Prefect reminded the world that today no less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII...
...blonde Marlene of the puissant thighs...
...wooing & winning the country. It would be grossly unfair to discount the genuine desire of the average Congressman to be helpful in time of crisis. And where this desire was weak or the Congressman's honest convictions obstructive, President Roosevelt held behind his back the most puissant of political weapons- Patronage, the thousands & thousands of Federal jobs the distribution of which Congressmen may propose, the President dispose...