Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died not broken-hearted Nor by a disease he fell, But in an instant parted From the ones he loved so well...
...foolish enough to imagine that the Supreme Court, now headed by Chief Justice Hughes, would for an instant be cowed by the criticism Senators had heaped upon its economic principles. Its members, as always, were silently aloof from such political ructions. But economics make war for politicians no less than for nations. To many the Senate phenomenon, no unwholesome sign, marked the commencement of wholesale political discussion of the Supreme Court's part in the economic destiny...
...Britain to scrap five battleships, the U. S., three. This still leaves Britain the advantage of the 33,900-ton Rodney. U. S. naval officers blandly suggested that this country be allowed to scrap a fourth battleship, build a duplicate Rodney to take its place. This brought instant protest from Senator Borah in Washington, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations...
...instant reaction of Statesman Stimson and his colleagues was strongly in the negative, since capital ships have always been "the backbone of the U. S. Navy." They seemed to fear that Mr. MacDonald was trying to put them in the highly awkward position of being forced to defend the right of the U. S. to build the very biggest, most costly, most palpably menacing type of ship...
Response to the Fox Securities Corp. issue was, according to Mr. Brown, "instant and gratifying." Said he: "Our telephone lines at the bank have been, clogged all day with inquiries . . . many potential investors have called in person. . . . It should be emphasized that the plan is substantially, the same as that resorted to by Henry Ford when he sought financial assistance from his customers and employes, and, as Mr. Ford did, I am confident that we will prove that Wall St. hasn't got all the money awaiting investment...