Word: mightier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Coolidge appointment last July had roused Senator Norris and other anti-power-trust people to a high pitch of in dignation. For Mr. West once served as lawyer to Samuel Insull, than whom there is no mightier powerman. Indeed, just before his appointment Mr. West sold for $118,000 certain Insull securities which he had acquired for $67,000. Mr. West took the position that his Insull connection was a thing of the past, but, even so, promised to withdraw from any matter affecting Insull interests. To Senator Norris and his fellow "Progressives," however, the adequate control of public...
...certitude. Civilizations are never static. They are always in motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...
...Penn played Harvard on a slow field; but the Penn team was mightier than the sward...
...name of Alfred Emanuel Smith loomed mightier than ever last week. Not only was he elected Governor of New York for the fourth time by a plurality of some 250,000 votes, not only did he sweep a large part of the Democratic ticket into office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 presidential nomination is settled." Thus reported TIME, after the November elections of 1926. In 1928, a Democrat again became Governor of New York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor...
Communications. Mighty are the four chief U. S. communication companies (Radio, I. T. & I., A. T. & T., Western Union). Mightier still would be a combination of any two of them. But under the White Act, U. S. cable and radio companies may not merge. Surprising, piquant, therefore, was the admission of President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union last week, that he had conferred with Chairman of the Board Owen D. Young of Radio Corp., the subject being a possible, desirable merger...