Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quick as chameleons to make names match their surroundings, Jews in Palestine were reported last week to be rapidly changing to names more Jewish. One Leslie John Martin, who adopted that name as useful in the U. S., last week in Jerusalem was happy again as Joshua Goldstein...
...define the limits of the powers of Congress or to foretell the future limitations of local self-government." Though AAA officials declared the AAAmendments pending in the Senate last week (see p. 12) would create virtually a new AAA requiring a new court test, Attorney General Cummings promised a quick appeal to the Supreme Court, no let-up in the Government's efforts to collect processing taxes. Secretary Wallace, on a visit to his mother in Colorado,† airily remarked: "The ruling is of no great consequence until it has been passed upon by the Supreme Court." But with...
...aircraft carrier and fly without a pilot by radio control to attack H. M. S. Rodney. To the oldfangled Monarch's immense satisfaction the first Queen Bee tumbled into the water almost before it got started and the second was shot down by Rodney's quick-firing 4.7 in. guns...
...currencies; how to establish a "Supreme Court" for banking & currency; "trial marriage" of the dollar and pound sterling; when to return to the gold standard; how to avoid returning to the gold standard. James David Mooney, General Motors' famed vice president in charge of exports, gave a few quick and cogent suggestions for reviving world trade, without attracting serious attention. After presiding at one session of the conference President Harper Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce politely surmised: "If all economists were laid end to end, they would reach no conclusion...
...reached your limit." Presumably unqualified for further advancement in Goodrich, he walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. where he got a better job at a better salary. Four years later Diamond Rubber was merged with Goodrich and young Tew found himself back with his old company. Alert, ambitious, quick-thinking, he was soon moved up to the position of works manager and finally, in 1928, became president. Quiet, conservative Mr. Tew kept on living in comparative modesty at nearby Hudson where, always investigating new ways to make rubber, he used to putter with latex on the kitchen stove...