Word: forthwith
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...Hassett. Lank, grey, stooped Bill Hassett, 64, got a little flustered, for the President abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late Marvin Mclntyre...
...Advisory Council (containing Puerto Rican members) to initiate changes in the island's political status. The subcommittee stood stanchly on its assertion that the U.S. Congress must "determine for itself at the proper time . . . the ultimate political destiny of the Island." The Puerto Rican politicos cried in pain. Forthwith, the political campaign began. The great popular cause between now and the November Puerto Rican elections would be complete self-government, so far as the politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems...
Buenos Aires heard that the Government of President Pedro Ramirez was about to declare war on the Axis. Argentina's dominant Army clique, already disgruntled by President Ramirez' diplomatic break with the Axis, forthwith acted as though he were about to declare war on the Argentine Army...
There is a little item in a recent issue of the "New Yorker," easily overlooked, but significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
...accused them of running their own show instead of carrying out the weekly Washington "directives" on how to slant news for overseas. Eight weeks ago, the London office's three best men quit over the same issue. Davis ordered Sherwood to fire Barnes, Warburg and Johnson. Sherwood refused. Forthwith Davis put the whole problem in Franklin Roosevelt...