Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their equipment was void if the equipment was damaged outside Boise, quick-wittedly refused. While the horses burned to death in screeching agony, Boise's firemen played their hose on a telegraph pole across the street from the fire, to protect it from the flames...
...brother of Boston Traveler's popular Columnist Neal O'Hara, Walter O'Hara is a quick-witted Irishman, onetime Rhode Island mill operator, who suddenly appeared on the State political scene when the Legislature legalized pari-mutuel horserace gambling in 1934. Promoter O'Hara quickly organized Narragansett Racing Association with the help of friends, bought 130 acres from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper for $150,000, built a track in seven weeks and began running profitable races before the paint was dry on the grandstand. Taking 62% of all bets made, besides gate receipts and concessions, Narragansett...
...Quick to respond was none other than the ever zealous City of Chicago itself which, broke as usual, submitted a bill for not part but all of the $241,000, plus an extra $27,000 for good measure. This bill, Chicago's Corporation Counsel urbanely explained, was for 3,351,655,000 gal. of water from Lake Michigan which the city claimed it had sold, not given, to the Exposition. The Exposition's answer: In 1932 the city had passed an order "that there shall be no charge against the Exposition for water"; the Exposition had paid...
...first wife shot herself and their two children to death. Last year he remarried. In the summer he lives on a Connecticut farm, leases his fields to farmer neighbors for haying. He travels frequently, last week arrived in France to visit the Foundation's Paris office, make a quick stop in London before returning to the U. S. His first year as the Foundation's president saw no sensational shifts of Rockefeller procedure but a continuation and broadening of traditional policy. His administration was proving quite satisfactory to his trustees and there was a note of crispness...
...this way in private. Reason at this time for speaking publicly was fear that the SEC would soon inaugurate its "segregation plan" announced last June. To achieve an investment market and reduce speculation, the SEC proposed, by segregating the functions of broker and dealer, to reduce the kind of quick-turnover buying and selling which these professionals practice. Unless a "valid case" against it were presented by the Exchange, Chairman Landis declared he would achieve this by: 1) placing all trading by members, on the floor or off, for their own account on a fully margined basis-forcing them...