Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women's vote and reluctant to sponsor openly the Government's thesis that British women in the Civil Service are already better paid than other British women, quietly sneaked out of the House. The alert leader of the Labor Opposition, Major Clement R. Attlee, did a little quick counting, called for a vote. The mighty British Conservative Government, possessor of a regular majority of 250, was beaten, 156-to-148. Literally, this meant that the Government must, over its own policy, proceed to give women civil servants equal pay. Since the House was then sitting in committee...
...hastened to point out, concentrated in the heavy industries, steel, building construction, etc. The failure of heavy industries to recover lost ground and thereby re-employ more men is blamed, in part at least, on the New Deal and its repressive policies toward Business. Administration critics last week were quick to contrast the President's exhortation to industry to absorb more unemployment with his latest tax message in which he recommended a penal levy on corporate surpluses...
Month ago he called Franklin Roosevelt a heaven-sent gift to the U. S. people. Last week he announced that he "could not spare the time" to run for President himself, graciously endorsed Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas as the second best choice. Observers, quick to see the hand of Publisher William Randolph Hearst behind the move, thought the probable split in California's Republican ranks would be more than Governor Merriam bargained...
Outstanding man on the mat was Frank Downey, a Freshman, who pinned two opponents by quick falls, and then went on to take a decision from Henry Crawford, a member of the Business School and former Williams captain...
...humdrum to him as a lawyer. Byron, lately dead at Missolonghi, was his hero. While still a law clerk, he began what he intended to be a brilliant literary career by writing a satirical society novel. Famed Publisher Murray fought shy of it, and Ben was cut to the quick. Wanting to get rich very quickly, he took a flyer in South American mining shares. was soon over his ears in debt. Leaving his stuffy law office, he persuaded Murray to start a daily paper to rival the great London Times. The paper appeared just as the market crashed, petered...