powers
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POWERS, 81, National Book Award-winning author for Morte d'Urban, his first novel; in Collegeville, Minn. Powers never reached a wide audience, but his lives of Roman Catholic priests were gems of storytelling.
From Time Magazine Archive
The President issued a proclamation by which, in the exercise of his WAR POWERS, he "took possession and assumed control of each and every system of transportation in the United States and the appurtenances thereof."
From Community Civics and Rural Life by Dunn, Arthur William
