Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days of his sentence. Reported also were dirty details about...
Willie Bioff took Hollywood into camp four years ago, when he arrived as the representative of the A. F. of L. stagehands' potent President George Browne (TIME, Aug. 21). Known and printed was Willie Bioff's record as a Chicago hoodlum, his rise as George Browne's bodyguard and mainstay. Now Willie Bioff hobnobs with a Hollywood plutocrat. His dealings with Producer Joe Schenck were the subject of a court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about...
...advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry 40 or 50, up to one-ton monsters. As Britain mobilized an even greater trawler fleet and called for hundreds of volunteers from North Sea fishing ports, down went one ship after another, great and small, trawler and liner, nationality regardless. The 11,930-ton Japanese luxury steamer Terukuni Maru went...
...good news came just ten days after its potent Pittsburgh competitor, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., announced a 6% November wage bonus, compared to 4% in October for its 45,000 employes. Westinghouse's bonus system, adopted in 1936, boosts wages 1% for each $60,000 by which average monthly earnings for the previous three months exceed $600,000, cuts them 1% for every $60,000 below this par. Westinghouse's profit-sharing payments to Nov. 1 this year...
...arrive from Canada last week was another gentleman who has been around: potent, bushy-browed Arthur Blaikie Purvis. Head of the U. S. wing of the British purchasing commission he, like his French confrere, is returning to an old job. In 1914 he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U. S. His peacetime job is president of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (makers of explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals) which means he knows the chemical industry like a book...