Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rush of final business grew heavier, the time came for Franklin Roosevelt to say farewell to his best friend and fondest admirer, Louis McHenry Howe. Secretary Howe was sufficiently recovered not to need his oxygen tent any longer, but is still too ill to be bothered with serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator...
Leaping to their feet to check the adjournment rush, the Senate peacemen proclaimed themselves ready to filibuster indefinitely until neutrality legislation should be brought to a vote. Not for a moment did anyone believe they were bluffing. Only Missouri's Clark, A. E. F. colonel and a founder of the American Legion, knew anything about war at first hand but his colleagues did not let their ignorance dampen their zeal. Senator Bone led off with a two-and-a-half hour harangue...
...Even Benito Mussolini's most scornful critics, Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...
Meanwhile other blondes who keep company with Jews in Germany were being similarly dealt with on a nationwide scale, Storm Troopers working themselves up with shouts that they were "punishing race rape." One result: correspondents in large German cities reported rush sales of dark hair dye to many a blonde. Explanation: "They think you're a Jewess and let you alone with your Jewish boy friend, if your hair is dark. Of course in a small town where everyone is known, dye is no good...
...Mississippi Valley wholesale trade, buyers swarmed aboard before the staff had finished breakfast. As soon as the train was on siding at each stop telephones were hooked up with local exchanges so that customers and prospects could be invited aboard. A teletype in the office car clicked out rush orders direct to Chicago. Marshall Field's divulged no official sales figure but newsmen who accompanied the expedition estimated sales for the first seven days of the trip...