Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...relation to a member of Congress of the same name who was held up on the auto road between Mexico [City] and Taxco a few years ago? ... If he is the type of squirrel hunter they have in North Carolina, for God's sake give us conscription quick in the States...
Next logical candidate was a man much more amenable to New Deal orders than Representative Warren-lanky, quick, persuasive Representative John McCormack of Boston, Mass., who had gained great popularity in the House by a habit (while presiding over the committee of the whole) of ignoring the time limits of debate, thus permitting windy colleagues to blow themselves completely out. (It is an ancient House joke that, when a flapmouthed member has exceeded his allotted five minutes by 15, the most John McCormack ever says is a soft, Irish reminder that "the gentleman has only one minute left...
...shares (estimated) are held by the public. After the dividend, the stock jumped to $14.75, a new 1940 high. Rumors started by Thompson's action included one that its 1940 earnings would reach $10 to $16 a share; this helped the post-dividend rally. Unaccustomed to quick profits these days, speculators figured that any insider who bought before the payment, sold three or four days later, could have cleared...
...Quick to spot dramatic detail, General Paul's third eye was in a position to pry into everything from the love letters of the Internationals in the trenches to the secret sessions of the staff. Most of what he pried into, Regler got into his novel. For back of the eye was a mind burning with a deep hatred of fascism (publishers report that Regler was once named Nazi Public Enemy No. 19), a keen sense of the historical importance of the events he was observing, an almost religious reverence (Regler is an ex-Catholic) for the simple, anonymous...
About 112 survivors of one of the war's worst sea disasters have been landed at this northern port, hysterically describing the quick death of men, women, and children tossed into the gale-swept sea or lingering death in life-boats...