Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thrown dead cats at New Deal Relief for two years, Republicans eagerly picked up this fresh ammunition from the Journal, let it fly. Quick to the WPA's defense rushed the New Dealish New York World-Telegram which pointed out that the survey covered only one WPA worker...
...class warfare can break out anywhere in the world without expressions of sympathy, and sometimes cash contributions from Moscow's Third International. Italy now was apparently undertaking to support a foreign outbreak of Fascism in the same way. Correspondents with the northern rebel armies near Burgos were quick to point out German steel helmets. Twice last week Russian freighters loaded with Soviet munitions were reported en route to help the radical Spanish Government. In Moscow, 100,000 workers jammed the Red Square, pledged their aid in a campaign to raise 200,000,000 rubles for the Spanish Government...
Meanwhile Administrator Hopkins and Resettler Tugwell acted as their own quarterbacks. By last week's end WPA had placed some 30,000 farmers on relief projects, was adding about 2,000 a day, mostly in the Dakotas, Georgia, Missouri. Resettler Tugwell made a quick tour of the Northwest, chatted with farmers, gloomily announced that half the population of the cattle-grazing Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming would require government aid to get through next winter. Of the cost, he said, he had not the faintest idea. His Resettlement Administration last week received $3,000,000 monthly for development of lands...
Denverites liked his looks, which suggest Cinemactor Warner Oland playing Charlie Chan. Quick with compliments, Editor Davis got off on the right foot by saluting Denver as "the civilized capital of a glamorous, robust Rocky Mountain Empire with a culture of its own which I hope to understand and enter into...
...typewriter. Editor Page "gave him a desk and some copy paper and some cigarets. He went into a brief trance and then started typing at a furious rate. In about 45 minutes . . . he was done. . . and gave me ten or a dozen sheets of typescript. These I read quickly, finding to my surprise that he had done a remarkably good job. . . . By this time the office had closed and I invited him out for a quick drink, during which he discoursed most entertainingly on his life and letters. I left him feeling that I had met a refreshingly original gent...