Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These years on the scene, combined with his grasp of China's language and history, have given him a view different from that of journalists who hit the country and fly off in a few days. A quick dose of hearty, bluff, American-style democracy, or solid support of the right-wing Kuomintang power-group is not enough, he maintains. "The fact that the imperial tradition had the inertia of three thousand years behind it and was formally abandoned only in 1911 should give us pause. How can we reasonably expect that even a people so politically gifted...
...feel that it is a perfectly proper thing that the Catholic Club has done, and that the Crimson editorial is at best foolish, and perhaps malicious. If the Liberal Union, for instance, had seen fit to notify its members who "their" candidate was, would the Crimson have been so quick to cry, "Shame"? I doubt...
...floor of the Territorial Legislature in Juneau. Last week he had a more urgent plea. West Coast shipping strikes had cut off supplies, reduced the university cooks to a bill of fare of soup, spaghetti, and milk from the experimental dairy. Warned President Bunnell: unless the university got quick relief, its students would be "freezing and starving...
...would be paying for the loss in coal and steel production for a long time to come. It would be more than a month before overall production got back to where it was-if then. The stock market, full of rosy hopes for a quick resurgence, pushed the Dow-Jones industrial index up 4.75 points in the first post-strike day of business. But the all-around shaking up which the economy had had might well hasten the recession that nearly everybody feared...
...came from N.A.M.'s industrial relations committee, drawing up suggestions for a new federal labor policy. Some committee members, led by Chrysler Corp.'s finance chairman, B. E. Hutchinson, and the Michigan Manufacturers Association's hard-bitten general manager, John R. Lovett, were all for demanding quick repeal of the Wagner Act. But to committee chairman Clarence B. Randall, vice president of Inland Steel Co., plumping for outright repeal seemed just the sort of thing that had given N.A.M. a bad name in the past. N.A.M., said Randall, should be content to outline broad objectives, let Congress...