Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, also of Oregon, saw that it got what it wanted. Quick came the claim that the farmer's new profits under the bill would be immediately absorbed by increased costs in building material, paint, clothing, special foods and the like...
...quick tandem bicycle sprint from the CRIMSON Building down to Mount Auburn Street will open the afternoon. This will be followed by a four-in-hand obstacle race to the river bank and the waiting dories. Barring mishaps, the crews will unload after the regatta at Soldiers Field and will finish the quintathion there with the traditional diamond fray...
...President Hoover's criticism that the debenture plan would cause overproduction and increase instead of decrease crop surpluses. The Norris amendment would set up the crop production of the last five years as an average. When production swelled too much, debenture payments would shrink. Many a Senator was quick to point out that the exportable crop surplus would have to double before debenture payments started down. The adoption of this Norris amendment postponed the final showdown of strength...
...Shouse appointment mollified anti-Raskob Democrats no less than the quick payments of their debts. As a Kansas Congressman (1915-19), Mr. Shouse served under Carter Glass on the House Banking & Currency Committee, and later was, again under Glass, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A McAdoo man in 1920 and 1924, he is viewed with approval in the South despite his work at Democratic headquarters last year for the Brown Derby...
...artists, art critics or art patrons who do not live in Manhattan are quick to concede that that angular island is the art capital of the U. S. Yet it is to Manhattan that most U. S. art disputes, such as one which lately raged in Philadelphia, are taken for judgment...