Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington apartment one morning last week a heart attack brought Senator Fletcher's life to a swift close. That afternoon the House rejected the Senate's Canal amendment, 108-to-62. Next morning the Senate, convening after a recess in honor of its dead colleague, accepted the House's action without protest, let Duncan Fletcher's ditch die with...
...from a previously strong Labor candidate. Last week potent Clan Astor was overjoyed when Hon. Bill was picked by Sir Samuel Hoare to be Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord, this sort of job under a minister with a future being the surest leg up in Britain to swift promotion for a smart young politician. Reputedly Hon. Bill attracted Sir Samuel's attention by his energy and gumption as private secretary to Lord Lytton on the commission which went to the Far East, reported on Japan's grab of Manchukuo (TIME...
...Swift to snub Haile Selassie by sending diplomatic regrets were the U. S., Russia, France, Germany, Japan, the Little Entente, all the Scandinavian and Balkan States, and five of the 20 Latin American republics, plus all the British Dominions, vice-regal India and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Captain Eden excused himself by saying that he had to make a political speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine...
...Conservative Daily Express, "you need to [recall] the Stavisky Scandal in France and the United States Teapot Dome oil scandals, which dragged on for years." In editorials of modest understatement, Fleet Street reminded everyone that only six weeks had elapsed since the Budget leaked- another record for British Justice, swift & sure...
...Benito Mussolini was concerned last week, his colonies of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...