Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of the "Advocate" have taken the only step open to them under the circumstances. That they should suffer from a puritannical trait that has been the curse of American art since its earliest days is patently unjust. The zealous and alert Mr. Leahy has accomplished another in a series of travesties of law enforcement...
...extract furtively from the bottom drawer of his desk a chocolate cream. In desperation good Mr. Bennett attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed that the Bennett Deal, like the Roosevelt, was in many respects unconstitutional and unworkable, the Dominion's constitution being the British North America Act which aggressively protects provincial rights from encroachment by the Federal Government...
Since Premier Bennett has for years been more alert to Communist preparations for the World Revolution of the World Proletariat than any other North American statesman, Canadian voters know that the Comintern of Moscow is not that funny kind of Russian cabbage soup with sour cream in it. Exceptionally enlightened as to Communists, Canadians were offered a chance to elect Red M. P.'s last week by Incendiary Tim Buck who rushes about trying to win workmen's votes by showing them cablegrams of encouragement received from the World Communist Party Congress in Moscow (TIME, July...
Bold-eyed guards stood alert at every entrance door of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research one brisk afternoon last week. Indoors more bold-eyed guards followed John D. Rockefeller Jr. as he rambled through corridors and rooms by the side of a trim, shy, youngish man who that day was being installed as director of the Institute...
...Their institutions, organized during the War to lend farmers money on mortgages, represent the most successful effort in the U. S. to provide cheap, long-term agricultural credit. Last week with all twelve Land Bank presidents in Washington for a conference with the Farm Credit Administration, an alert Wall Street Journal newshawk obtained a comprehensive survey of farm real estate conditions without leaving the city. Since the Land Banks have picked up a goodly num-ber of farms by foreclosure, the assembled presidents spoke not only as mortgage bankers but also as big real estate dealers with land for sale...