Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...tour among Jersey voters. In his hand he held a manuscript, his first campaign speech, from which he was about to read. No hard-boiled political stumpster, he seemed shy and nervous before the 2,000 clerks, farmers, Negroes, laborers, socialites - Republican voters all - who packed the hall. A swift smile from Mrs. Morrow who sat in a box with Manhattan Banker Otto Hermann Kahn gave him encouragement. As the din of sirens and noise makers died, Mr. Morrow cleared his throat, plunged straightway into his speech in a strong clear voice : "I come before the Republican voters...
Roscoe Turner, lieut.-colonel in the Nevada National Guard, in a uniform of his own devising-horizon blue tunic. whipcord breeches, braid, boots, flying insignia-with a lion cub as supercargo, last week tried to surpass Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent swift flight across the continent (TIME, April 28).† Like Col. Lindbergh. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached...
Leanard Field Hubbard '31, of Taunton, will again be manager, a position which he has held for the last year. The other officers will be Elijah Swift '32, of Burlington, Vermont, treasurer, and Charles Edward Smith '33, of Newton, secretary-librarian...
...Francisco to be treated by Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber at their Southern Pacific General Hospital Clinic. Over the protest of Drs. Coffey & Humber. newspapers have heralded as a cure what the Doctors refer to as "encouraging experiment" (TIME, Feb. 24). Deluded into believing that sure, swift relief could be given them, some 1,500 people have rushed to the Clinic, more than could possibly be handled...
After weeks of argument and revision, the new French tariff on automobiles framed by Minister of Commerce Pierre Etienne Flandin was approved last week by the Tariff Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, recommended for swift enactment. U. S. dealers studied it ruefully, admitted that "it might have been worse...