Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy old family. Born 46 years ago at Newport, R. I. at the height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near...
From Angora it was announced that henceforth His Excellency Mouhtar Bey, Turkish Ambassador to the U. S., must consider himself Turkish Minister to Mexico as well, hold himself ready to rush to Mexico City in emergencies. Abruptly abolished was the post of Turkish Minister to Madrid, where the Turkish legation will function permanently under a Chargé d'Affaires. Reason for both: Economy...
...Arkansas' Robinson, Virginia's Byrd, Illinois' Lewis, Tennessee's Hull-had so much as hinted that Governor Roosevelt's candidacy was too far "out in front" to beat. Owen D. Young's friends were working with covert vigor. Almost overlooked in the Roosevelt rush was the fact that a two-thirds majority is needed to nominate at the convention, which means that the leading candidate does not always...
...outlay at $1,050,000,-ooo. During May, however, there was a new and sudden spurt of loan applications. Last week they were pouring in again, at the rate of 35,000 per week. Best explanation for the new spurt was that, whereas needy veterans constituted the first big rush for loans, those employed and not in need were now coming forward to borrow while the Government's offer still stood. Last week's revised estimate of the final Bonus cost: $1,500,000,000. Loan payments have now exceeded the Bonus reserve fund which since 1925 Congress...
...When James and Jennifer showed signs of drifting together, Alice whisked him off to Switzerland. Jennifer was a little hurt but forgot it when Father's wife left him and left Father on her hands again. By a cataclysmic effort of will, James shook Alice long enough to rush manfully home to Jennifer, declare himself unvicarishly. Father, a selfish, tactless man on the whole, died at just the right moment...