Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabbit could be assimilated by Congressional minds, Mr. Roosevelt further announced his appointment of Jesse Holman Jones to head the new Federal Loan Agency and of John Michael Carmody to head the new Federal Works Agency. Mr. Jones's translation from Reconstruction Finance Corp. was scarcely unexpected, but quick reference to the President's great new scheme made observers wonder if Mr. Jones had not been kicked upstairs instead of promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional banker, has been regarded by the New Deal...
...White House Mr. Roosevelt summoned the Congressional and administrative figures chiefly involved, to exhort quick action. He made known that he wished all new Federal securities issued to supply the $3,860,000,000 to be nonexempt from taxes. He then left Congress and the nation to cogitate the implications of the 1939 rabbit, by all odds his largest since...
...about saving "face," were left explaining that they had delivered not an ultimatum but only a polite warning. Bolder at its distance, the Nazi press in Berlin, carried a headline: U. S. Admiral Is Agitator. The British, cornered at every turn in China, frankly admired the Admiral's quick, firm action. They might also admire the U. S. State Department. For months the Japanese have practiced the clever dodge of blaming any international scrape they got into in China on the military people on the spot. The U. S. has adopted the stalemate expedient of letting its military people...
...kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna 75% of the wheat was so dashed that machines could not be used and peasants were bringing out their sickles for a slow, back-breaking harvest by hand...
...Francisco's, in the California Building. No competition for such Fair attractions as Treasure Island's Dnude Ranch or Flushing's Sun Worshippers, Land of Liberty is worth sitting through, if only for the kick of watching Liberty marching to Hollywood's double-quick tune...