Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Three of Europe's most distinguished statesmen rushed through the 58th session of the Council of the League of Nations last week with the haste of a trio of Babbits snatching a quick lunch. Drowsy old Aristide Briand, veteran French Foreign Minister, shambled out of The Hague Conference (see p. 25) to a wagonlit, woke up next morning in Paris, where he conversed for a half hour with "Ramsay MacDonald's Yes-Man," British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, sped him on his way to Geneva. Next day he boarded an-other wagonlit, woke up at Geneva. Waiting there...
...according to the Lithuanian Constitution; or is it a Polish city - which it is according to the Polish warriors who have held it since 1919?* After putting this agenda in the capable hands of underlings - lesser statesmen such as Quinones de Leon of Spain - for the customary debate, the Quick Lunchers prepared to entrain for the London Conference (see col. 2). Cor respondents facing a dire dearth of news cornered Mr. Henderson and chorused, "Come on, tell us how you came to be called 'Uncle Arthur!" "Certainly, gentlemen," said "R. M.'s Y. M.," beaming. "A long time...
...operating man (as distinct from a finance man), Mr. Cobb is a hardworking, quick-spoken executive. He is a fishing & hunting enthusiast and each year takes two four-to-six-week vacations with which nothing can interfere. Last fall he was on one of his hunting trips when the market crashed. Mr. Cobb let it crash and kept on hunting. His reading consists largely of outdoor magazines and of biographies. He also sees nearly every play of every season. He has three daughters; lives at No. 270 Park Avenue, Manhattan...
Canada Dry. The first Canada Dry was bottled in Toronto. In 1921 the first U. S. agency was started in Manhattan. President Parry D. Savior entered the company in 1923 and began national advertising with the slogan: "Down from Canada came tales of a wonderful beverage." Sales showed quick advances, now total $12,000,000 annually. Two factories with a combined capacity of 50,000 bottles per hour make Canada Dry for the U. S. There are three factories in Canada including the original one which was bought by the U. S. company in 1924. Its other subsidiaries...
There are those persons connected with every college who are quick to seize upon every opportunity to decry the passing of the great names among the faculty. A plenitude of tears has been shed by various pessimists who have bemoaned the passing of the great age of William James, George Santyana and that small body of men who spread the fame of Harvard abroad during the nineteenth century...