Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fort Madison, Iowa, he was the younger son of a lawyer father who became claims attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka. Both parents are now dead but John Hamilton has one brother, Hale, 12 years his elder, an actor who in 1910 starred in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, later went into the movies. John Hamilton graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1913, got his law degree from Chicago's Northwestern University three years later. Before graduation he married Laura Hall, daughter of a wealthy Kansas printer, after graduation settled briefly in Kansas City, Mo. before moving back...
Republican Convention this week, hoped for quick adjournment next week by the simple process of putting on ice all legislation which has not yet passed both Houses. Major measures slated for discard under this plan were the Wagner Housing bill, substitute Guffey Coal bill, Copeland Ship Subsidy and Pure Food & Drug bills. By the same principle, at week's end, only remaining "musts" were taxes and Relief. Easy agreement was expected on the Relief (First Deficiency) appropriation bill, which had just gone to conference. Only real threat to adjournment plans was the possibility of a prolonged conference wrangle over...
...your country," he asks, "have you ever tried it?" He hits the usually submissive attitude of the churches in war time and inquires why, if they will stand for murder at periodic intervals, they will not stand for adultery as well. His reasoning is pointed and quick and his facts so simple as to be well-nigh incontestable. He offers a plan for peace that might work--if it were ever tried...
...Future Wars is payable now, he explains. "There is no sense in going to war, as every true veteran of the last few years will tell you, unless there is some provision for living in idleness at the expense of the government for the rest of your life . . . A quick glance at the records of the Revolutionary War will show any Doubting Thomas that many of the states and the Continental Congress had to guarantee the soldiers a bonus and pension for life before they would engage in the war. And if you are still unconvinced I need only...
...30th.--Comes the woman betimes to wake me, saying a man with big nose of great business is here to see me. So, I, very quick, up wondering who it be; but soon found out and vexed at my heart to see it be only the good Samaritan, Max Keezer. So we to do great bargaining and I very merry to hear him talk. But I not to give in to his offerings for I have heard his next step is to flip for the amount of the disagreement; and I did wait for this; and, bless my soul...