Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...false name, played his part so well that the country doctor never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned in the barn below Fredericksburg, Va. but Dr. Mudd and seven other persons accused of aiding the assassin were in jail. Hauled before Secretary of War Stanton's Military Commission, the eight were summarily divided-four for Death, three for life...
...first 25 jobless miners' families moved to Reedsville from their hovels in nearby mining settlements. To provide quick shelter, quick work for unskilled hands, Washington authorities ordered 50 ready-cut, four-room houses at a reported price of $48,000. The first families were to move in by Thanksgiving. Meantime they were lodged around the neighborhood...
...Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings. Two years later ground was broken for a great Gothic-spired church. In triple-quick time the congregation paid off a $60,000 mortgage...
...that bank in 1927 when Amadeo Peter Giannini, great imperialist among California's bankers, took it into his mighty chain. Today Legionary Belgrano is a vice president of Giannini's Bank of America, president of the Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., a financier by trade. A quick thinker, direct in action, a good organizer, the new national commander set out to fulfill the program given him by the Legion at Miami. That program included getting Congress to appropriate money to develop Soap Lake, Wash., to break off diplomatic relations with Russia, to ratify the Child Labor Amendment...
...Fred Perry, currently the world's No. 1 tennist, lost to Jack Crawford in the final of the Australian championship, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Said Perry, after the match: "This may be the last time Crawford and I will meet." Newshawks were quick to sense the implication: when Tilden's tour starts next year, Perry may be star attraction...