Word: forthwith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, Maine's Republican Governor, big Lewis O. Barrows, waved aside a turkey he was to have carved at a formal banquet, gobbled: "You wouldn't eat oysters in July. . . .* You wouldn't eat a turkey on November 23." Forthwith he whipped from his pocket a can of sardines, self-consciously ate them...
...Britain that in 1915 a gunner submitted a device for plotting the course of attacking aircraft to increase the accuracy of antiaircraft fire. In 1918 he was finally permitted to demonstrate, and his gadget performed so effectively for altitudes up to 16,000 feet that it was adopted forthwith, helped repel the last big German air raid...
Dies Committeeman Noah Mason of Illinois proposed to have them all fired if they did not quit the League forthwith. "It is too bad," said he, recognizing that some innocents are bound to be hurt. Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman introduced a bill to bar from Federal pay rolls all members of all organizations affiliated in any degree with the widely affiliated Communist Party (or with any other outfit which would overthrow the U. S. Government). Carried to its logical extreme in public and private employment, this form of retribution would turn up millions of witches in the besplattered...
...present policy will inevitably cause a substantial and Immediate damage to the educational effectiveness of the University. The damage is two-fold: direct and indirect. Directly, the policy injures the University by requiring it forthwith to dispense with the services of experienced teachers and to replace them with inexperienced teachers.... Indirectly, the policy injures the University by making it less attractive both to students and to younger teachers...
...participation of Catholics in these groups is Rev. Paul B. Ward, Paulist father, editor of Wisdom (monthly Paulist organ). Few weeks ago the October Wisdom appeared with a brief story about how a leader of the Christian Mobilizers had gone south to a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Forthwith, Father Ward's office was ransacked. He was warned, anonymously, that his life was in danger. He was informed, by telephone, that his church would be picketed. Father Ward called the police...