Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech sonorously accepting Tammany's renomination was loyally cheered by several hundred city employes but, since no newspaper was interested in him, it made scant news. Accurately he observed: "Everyone knows that the 5? fare does not permit a sufficient return on the city's enormous rapid transit investment. But the people have chosen to pay the interest on this investment in another form; that is, by taxation." The earnest, bumbling Mayor took credit for having dismissed 8,000 city employes, for saving $15,000,000, even for Samuel Untermyer's four-year financial rehabilitation plan worked...
...weeks ago. On the whole the team made a good showing in the first game. To be sure, the work wasn't perfect, but then continual shifting about of the players left every one in doubt about the line-up until Eddie Morris turned on his vocal chords. The rapid-fire changes during the week preceding the game were necessary but they didn't make for a coordinated club. The department that felt the effects of this was the running attack and more especially the interference for the carriers. Only on one or two occasions did the team shake runners...
From the ministerial bench of Spain's Cortes, chunky, gap-toothed Premier Manuel Azana has for two years led his Socialist Coalition Government in a rapid renovation of Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him until he had accomplished two things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well...
Following each other in rapid succession, the distressing spectacles of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva and the World Economic Conference at London soured the world's stomach for conferences in general. Delegates of 21 nations reassembled in London last week to talk about wheat, and the world Press regarded the beginning of their deliberations with marked skepticism-for the first three days with considerable justice. The framework for an international agreement to cut wheat production for two years by 15% in each of the great exporting countries-Canada, U. S., Australia, Argentina-had been drawn up early...
...France and Italy, his superior, Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, made truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). Since then Japanese have loudly applauded Chiang's ''reasonableness," confessed their "satisfaction"' with the attitude of Huang Fu, chief of the North China Political Council. Japanese diplomacy was making rapid headway among Nanking officials. Pacific-minded Premier Wang Ching-wei took over the Foreign Ministry. But last week there was tense anticipation in Nanking. Across the Pacific steamed the S. S. President Jefferson bringing home able Minister Soong, famed for his uncompromising policy toward Japan. Japan cocked a belligerent...