Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans are announcing their own "brain trust" Republican college professors to show Democratic college professors they are wrong. Heading the new "trust" is Dr. Olin Glenn sazon, professor of business administration at Yale, Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Olin once a broker at other times a lawyer is quick spoken and business like no dreamer to displace Republican Big Business aligned against the Administration...
...heavy permanent projects of Secretary Ickes' PWA. Their argument: not only does PWA give the country something for its money, it is boosting the construction and other heavy industries back to normal. At the White House last week President Roosevelt, who is sold on Harry Hopkins' quick jobmaking, said NO to this Congressional group, refused to haggle over a $400,000,000 compromise. Calling a Democratic caucus, the bloc was voted down, 70-to-53. When Leader Beiter rose in the House and offered his earmark as an amendment to the bill, he was ruled out of order...
Also bowled over in quick succession were Republican amendments to: 1) substitute the dole for work relief; 2) set up non-partisan local boards to administer relief; 3) fine and imprison any WPA official attempting to influence votes in a national election. As swiftly approved were Democratic amendments to: 1) bar aliens illegally resident in the U. S. from relief; 2) end the rule that WPA jobs may be had only by those on relief rolls since last November...
...Imperial Palace was that it was already pre-empted by a mere major. One of the most potent of Fascist bigwigs is Major Giuseppe Bottai, 40. A War veteran with a brilliant record, he later edited various nationalist papers, joined Benito Mussolini before the March on Rome. So quick was his rise as a party politician that at the age of 34 Giuseppe Bottai was Fascist Minister of Corporations, wielding more power than Il Duce thought good for him. Soon he was kicked upstairs to be Fascist Governor of Rome. When the African adventure developed, Fascist Bottai packed...
...mostly connected with men. Sometimes she outran them. Sometimes she had to hand them a good crack on the jaw. Sometimes they hit her back. ("He ask another man if I was French and tryed to hold my hand I got angry and Hit Him in the Face and quick as litning He hit me in the Face . . . that was my first fight, and the only ungentleman man I have meet in Turkey sorry it happen as I had been thinking all day if I had to give a prize to the most respectfully men it would...