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Agreeing to plead guilty if the prosecutor would promise him and Grate a quick execution, Prisoner Gibbons declared: "We want the quickest way out of this thing. The thing's been on my mind ever since the fire. We don't want to go back to the penitentiary. We've been there for nine years and know what it's like. It's not the prisoners but the officials we are afraid of. That's why we don't want to get a life sentence...
With the double attraction of being a wide-open town and the place where one can return to the single state quickest in the U. S., Reno had successfully met the challenges of Boise and Hot Springs, had retained its distinction as the nation's divorce capital, had protected its $3,000,000-a-year business...
More commendable than the plan itself is the cooperation which it shows with President Hoover. Here is a democratic governor following without reservation the example set by a republican President. He realizes that cooperation between the states and the nation is the quickest way to bring this country out of the depression and to reduce the number of our unemployed. He is broad-minded enough not' to let party affiliations overshadow the imperative needs of the times...
...average American as being extremely energetic, in fact a little too energetic at times. "They rush around so much and never bother to rest and reflect," he remarked. "They want to see how many miles they can make in a day, they are striving for the very best and quickest method of doing things, and the American business man who is in the biggest hurry seems to be greatly respected. In Germany we look up to student type, the professor, rather than the business man. American ways and customs are penetrating into Europe more and more. I noticed that...
...shall vote to accept the conference report . . . because I believe the long-drawn-out duration of this tariff revision has contributed to business and industrial uncertainty and the quickest and surest way to end that uncertainty is to get rid of this measure...