Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Senate had confirmed Mr. Lenroot by a vote of 42 to 27 was quickly known to every member of the Press Gallery. More enterprising than his colleagues, Newsman Paul Raymond Mallon of the United Press Association set himself to learn the exact line-up of these 69 secret votes. Many a good Senate friend has this (all, quick-stepping, dark-haired news-gatherer of 28. Through him early this year the public learned the secret vote whereby the Senate confirmed Roy Owen West as a Coolidge Secretary of the Interior (TIME, Feb. 4), the publication of which...
...make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
President Hoover was quick to sense the necessity of further assistance, unofficial though it was. for the reparations conference. Therefore, last Sunday, at the White House, he held an extraordinary conference of U. S. Government leaders at which a modification and reduction of German payments to the U. S. were agreed upon. These changes in U. S. claims, designed as a moral offset to the Stimson statement and as a new gesture of "friendly co-operation,'' were trivial. But they would, if accepted, be sufficient to put the U. S. in a position where its unofficial representatives...
Inventor Westinghouse, meanwhile, had been following Mr. Adams' movements and investigating Alternating Current for himself. He was prepared, when the bids were let, to construct AC generators on the Forbes design, and was quick to acknow ledge Mr. Adams' victory when the installations proved successful. The compressed-air plan was scrapped. Alternating Current began flashing from Niagara in volume sufficient to turn every wheel and light every bulb in Buffalo. When Lord Kelvin visited the Falls and signed the visitors' book, he cheerfully saluted the wisdom Mr. Adams had shown in proceeding contrary to the foremost electrical...
Consumers' View. An immediate question was: What effect will this bill, if and when enacted, have upon the cost of living? Such politicians as Massachusetts' Senator Walsh were quick to raise the old cry of "outrageous and exorbitant duties on food products," to predict direful increases in household expenses. More practical men, outside of Congress and familiar with food distribution and the tariff's effect upon it, were ready to believe that the retail buyer would not see much change in his meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained...