Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addis Ababa smart Emperor Haile Selassie sold to Francis W. Rickett a concession covering oil exploitation rights in almost the whole kingdom. This Mr. Rickett offered in a quick turnover to Standard Vacuum Oil Co., and at the time many Europeans believed this deal (which ultimately fell through) would draw the U. S. into protecting the owners of the concession, thus barring Benito Mussolini from conquering...
...Manhattan, latest reports were that 25,000,000 barrels of Mexican oil are what friends of Rickett & Smith want to buy, below the world price of oil. And from this purchase the Mexican Government would get some of the quick cash it needs to keep going, make first compensation payments, and thus have a chance of getting the U. S. Treasury to resume the silver purchases from Mexico, canceled after the oil expropriation (TIME, April...
...Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders Bankhead and Rayburn, whose orders from the White House might have read: "Take the Rankin Bill; maybe it will head off Gasque." With but one loud NO the bill was passed by the House, swallowed by the Administration and sent to the Senate after Congressman Griswold...
...Bill) and he's burned up every league he's ever been in. There is the usual catch in this case, Bill, as in every other, viz, the boy's a little dumb, in fact he is awful dumb. What will we do? What will we do? Write me quick, because I've got to sign him up quick. You must know some way of getting him in and once we do we'll keep him there somehow. I asked him if he'd like to play for Harvard, and he said, "Awforcrowmikesure," which just shows his enthusiasm. Best, Butch...
...policy, he will have difficulty matching the frankness of the final Bridge World editorial while under Culbertson ownership: "Every bridge writer with the facilities to do so is even now working on some sort of book, any sort of book, about five-suit contract. There will be a quick sale for it. The public can discover its unsoundness later, when the money is already in the till. Naturally, the editors of the Bridge World are in the thick of it, getting their own book on five-suit bridge printed and on sale...