Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...London Conference prepared to end with a quick curtain last week, the Naval Treaty was rushed onto paper by a drafting committee, and who should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make...
European governments large and small now recognize the need for adequate air corps in national defense. Many are virtually without modern equipment. Quick to perceive an outlet for the overproduced stock of 1929, Curtiss-Wright Exports Corp. has sent an invading team of expert flyers to demonstrate and sell to foreign armies Curtiss Falcon (observation), Curtiss Hawk (pursuit), Curtiss Fledgling (training), Curtiss Robin (cabin...
Rebuffed, United canvassed individual NAT stockholders for their proxies to support its exchange offer. Bitterness was intensified when United obtained the holdings of certain of the NAT personnel. Quick to retaliate, Curtiss-Keys launched a counter-offensive for proxies...
...week closed he turned spitefully on the Vare machine, charged it with saddling Philadelphia with a huge debt, with "feeding at the public trough." His charges were reminiscent of those that George Wharton Pepper, Mellon senatorial candidate, made in vain against Mr. Vare four years ago. Always quick with a retort, Varemen accused Grundy of helping to "unload" on Pennsylvania some land at Valley Forge under the false pretense that it was George Washington's camping ground...
...stock still, holding his left hand high until Black Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes as a trapshooter catches a clay pigeon; he reached down, took hold of the rope, pulled this way and that for quick turns; he pressed both gloves against his own stomach like a waiter making a bow, then flashed them up in furious rataplans to Black Bill's stomach and head. He won the championship. The crowd that cheered the decision went out comparing him to famed tiny fighters...