Word: wield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settled policy of La Prensa never to comment on personalities: its editors hold that nothing matters except principles. These are the special concern of Sunday Editor Gollan. La Prensa's editorials, skipped by most readers, supposedly wield great power with the Government. When a significant editorial has to be written, even on a weekday, Don Ezequiel or his nephew usually calls in Sr. Gollan...
...Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned elsewhere for counsel. When Louis Johnson announced that Mr. Stettinius as chairman of W. R. B. would wield vast administrative powers in wartime, the evidence seemed to be overwhelming: the New Deal would be shelved for the duration...
Today Sam and Bill and Louis Kapp, a young laundry worker who was their first salesman, have 225 employes, by next month's end will have 300 working three shifts. Over the boards, six draftsmen and eight designers wield pen and T square turning out drawings for scale models of most U.S. military and commercial airplanes in the air today, as well as many a foreign model. Comet has 6,000 dealers, 20 full-time salesmen, a branch and salesroom in Manhattan. Its models, ranging from the Dawn Patrol Fleet (retail price: five for 5?) to the Comet Clipper...
Chiefly self-made experts who slid fortuitously into their roles, Broadway's critics wield a power shared by no like number of men in any other...
Bryce-Byram Smith, as Mayor, up to last week was a powerless dummy. Such authority as Boss Tom did not wield for himself was vested (since 1926) in rich, famed City Manager Henry F. McElroy and in the City Council. Last week Mayor Smith suddenly announced that for the good of Kansas City, he was taking unto himself the powers placed in Henry McElroy by the city charter...