Word: wield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncle Joe" Cannon, who held the Speakership from 1903-10, a minority member truly said: "I have seen him wield more power than the President." Uncle Joe owed much of his power to Maine's resolute Tom Reed, who had so rigged House procedure (the famed Reed's Rules) that the Speaker became, in effect, a dictator. Uncle Joe reaped the whirlwind in the spirited "revolution of 1910," when the House, under the prodding of a young Representative from Nebraska named George Norris, rewrote the rules...
Once the rigid rules were broken, Speakers were forced to wield power by tact, persuasion and favors. "Nick" Longworth kept a firm grip on the House through shrewd committee maneuvers; Texas' Jack Garner held sway by means of his long seniority and experience...
...work with a will. Harry Truman, a shrewd politician, a maker of friends, a great man for shooting trouble, always kept his committee, happy and on the ball. It got more money, branched out, found itself deep in every phase of the war. Today few committees, and few men, wield such power...
...Textile mills, powerhouses and other industries burned peat and wood instead of coal. Thousands of civilians were mobilized to wield spades in the inexhaustible peat bogs of the Urals and central Russia...
Glass is now going to war in a big way as a replacement for copper, aluminum, bronze, other scarce metals. Already centrifugal pumps with impellers, plates and other parts of glass are whirring. U.S. laundresses will shortly wield electric irons having glass sole plates. Glass plumbing for private homes may be around the corner. Industrial glass plumbing is already here to stay. Recent developments include easy-to-use glass-welding gadgets so simple that ordinary maintenance employes in the U.S. food industry can be trained to repair and even to install glass plumbing. The U.S. fisherman who uses cork...