Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime tenet in President Hoover's international credo is, as all the world now knows, limitation, of armaments. He has hammered relentlessly away at the thesis that Armies now overburden the world, that the quickest way out of the Depression is to reduce war forces and the taxes which support them. Though the U. S. has no sizeable army to cut (138,000 officers & men), the President consented to join the Geneva Conference in the earnest hope that the U. S. could somehow help other great powers agree to limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress...
...wants, Dr. Wells will soon be illustrating his lectures with lantern slides of drawings by Peter Arno, I. Klein, and Otto Soglow. At present Dr. Wells has some 30 odd cartoons which have been carefully selected to explain to his class various psychological reactions in the easiest and quickest manner possible...
...Hearst reporter,* reported favorably. Manifestoed bumbling Mr. Baldwin, "I believe a great part will be played by those I am proud to lead." Cautiously Leader Baldwin pledged the Conservative Party to reduce imports and increase exports, adding this daring (for him) statement: "In my view a tariff is the quickest and most effective weapon ... to reduce imports...
Citizens of the U. S.?world's quickest reactors to ballyhoo?instantly began withdrawing short term credits from Germany. During the week it was estimated that $100,000,000 of U. S. credits were withdrawn. German businessmen were furious. Stocks fell on Berlin 'change. In certain Berlin banking circles U. S. correspondents were told...
...London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great stiff robes, in his flowing full-bottomed wig, and adorned with his cumbrous, jingling golden chains of office, Sir Phené Neal personified last week British Justice - the world's quickest, most impressive, best...