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Sirs: The most valid and puissant argument that I have knowledge of, for the retention of the 18th amendment in our constitution was that advanced by the Hon. Jack Bradford, prominent lawyer and planter of Itta Bena, Miss, (a so-called arid State) in a speech yesterday delivered on the Jones Fedric Plantation at the annual squirrel stew. Guests were the important cotton planters of this Mississippi Delta section. Applause was gusty. For the information of your readers, I quote the speech [in part]: ". . . Taxation is destroying our nation. We have been taxed in every way that the ingenuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Lord Rothermere, puissant maharajah of publication and publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Being in the habit of reading every word in every issue of your magazine, I begin to shrink from again encountering "potent." Why not vary it with "puissant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Owen D. Young, puissant rajah of electrical utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Another advantage about East Indian titles such as rajah and maharajah would be that for potent or puissant lady magnates you could say "begum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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