Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, tired of waiting for election returns, Kentucky decided it would take no chances of holding up what promised to be closer election results for 1936, passed a "quick count" election law to finish with other states on election night...
...actually been. In reporting 1935 profits of $199,000 for Marshall Field as a whole. Chairman James O. McKinsey revealed that the wholesale division had lost no less than $12,000,000 in the past five years. Butler's President Cunningham, in Florida last week for a quick vacation, must have had a few chuckles over that Field report, for he expects to grab off a fat slice of the business Field has abandoned...
...that any banker worth the name could, in a trice, make at least 100% on money entrusted to his care. When it was belatedly discovered that banker-managed investment trusts could lose money just as fast as any individual investor, a terrific public revulsion occurred. One result was the quick growth in the first years of Depression of the so-called fixed trust, an institution in which securities were bought & sold by an inflexible formula. In its early form the fixed trust offered a virtual guarantee that securities would be sold for less than their purchase price because the trust...
Glidden, always a smooth tournament player went through three quick games with hardly a fault, making numerous "boast shots" which crack three walls and finally nick a corner to fall dead on the floor...
Here was a test of strength, a sign of returning vigour in the American masses, so the reactionaries, quick to quench spiritual fires wherever beginning to blaze, set to work. Mayor LaGuardia, already having flown his true colors as a traitor to the masses in the purge of Marcantonio, issued a few proclamations regarding Public Health, and tried to arrange parleys for peace, where naturally intelligence has an unfair advantage. All to delude the elevator boys to return to their Hell of button-pushing and servility...