Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good story, but the facts, as they belatedly emerged, left it nothing but a cock-and-bull story-except for the tremendous fact that the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed to rush into action with the greatest haste, before Adolf Hitler was due to address the Reichstag. Dr. Schuschnigg is one of Europe's hardest, smartest, most devoutly pious and most able statesmen. So far from the Nazis having been such fools as to try to crack him by third degree methods...
Seyss-Inquart to Hitler. The first act of the new Minister of Interior was to rush from Vienna to Berlin. There Dr. Seyss-Inquart conferred with Economic Four-Year Plan Chief Goring, the No. 2 Nazi. That night, Dictator Hitler asked a number of prominent German industrialists to meet Dr. Seyss-Inquart at dinner...
...film of the gold-rush years is considered complete without a garish glimpse of San Francisco boom days. Gold Is Where You Find It takes time out from battle to attend a gilt-edged house party where the whiskery guests of honor are General U. S. Grant (Walter Rogers) and U. S. Senator George Hearst (Moroni Olsen). The Senator confides: "I'm worried about this boy of mine. Willie. . . . He wants to go into the newspaper business." With sympathetic nods the host agrees that there is no money in the newspaper business...
...young women Friends of Spanish Democracy. Gasped confused Signer Tom Connally of Texas: "Merely as an act of greeting. ... I am opposed to Fascism because of its iron intolerance. ... I am also, of course, bitterly opposed to Communism." Neatest explanation was that of West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt: "I would congratulate any government capable of holding parliament in time of warfare...
...such as the Navarrese and what remains of the Foreign Legion. The Government also seems to have the superiority in motor transport, and this is very important militarily. Any greater result than an initial success in a surprised offensive depends on the rapidity with which attacker and defender can rush up reserves, to deepen or close the breach respectively...