Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies must persuade the holders of mortgages to reduce their interest charges. Fortnight ago Frederic James Fuller, new president of New York Title & Mortgage Co., wrote to some of his certificate holders asking them to accept a 4% interest rate in place of the present rate of 5½%. Rapid progress along this line was expected under pressure from Realty Stabilization Corp...
...current League of Nations resolution censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition of Manchukuo comes as a relief to all who questioned the results of the Hoover-Stimson declaration. The rapid decision of our state department to refuse recognition to a state created in violation of the Kellogg pact will, apparently, be vindicated by the League...
That Congress should be reluctant to bestow added powers upon the executive seems an odd stemming of the tide of political theory and practice. Even the English Parliament has accepted its proper fate in an economic and social emergency whose trends are too rapid for mass regulation. Centralization of authority in the hands of a Prime Minister with a clear majority in the Commons has caused no dictator baiting. But our representatives have a stubborn reluctance to admit that their own leadership in the crisis has vacillated long enough, and cling pitiably to the purse strings which have of late...
...Park's own office looks over the East River. There he sits in a leather upholstered swivel chair, one leg across the other, hands locked behind his thin silvery hair, thinking or talking. He has a dry, brittle, rapid voice, smiles easily. His staff venerate him, play tennis with him (he was 69 last month) on the court adjoining the laboratory building. In summer he fishes in the St. Lawrence...
...first four chukkers, the play was even, and gave evidence of a drawn-out struggle, but in the fifth period, the lightweight Varsity took on a spirit of team-work that characterized their win over the Cavalry last week, and cutting down the Westwood defence, scored seven times in rapid succession, Nicholas leading his Crimson riders with four tallies...