Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chrysler's Keller [Oct. 16, 1939]- No sooner had he smiled for TIME'S cameraman than his company ran into a disastrous strike...
Then Mr. Roosevelt went south to Warm Springs, Ga., for Thanksgiving I. No sooner had he carved the turkey than he gathered the press, told them that he would pass the tax buck to Congress. Those sterling fellows, he intimated, must decide for themselves and the U. S. whether: 1) to pass a new tax bill, which in an election year is similar to harakiri; or 2) simply to go on borrowing money, thereby creating a larger deficit and running the public debt beyond the statutory $45,000,000,000 limit...
...followed Father's fading footsteps out of the U. S. He had signed up as an officer in the British Army, thus automatically renouncing the U. S. citizenship of the son of the U. S.'s most rambunctious Presidential citizen. Said he to U. S. reporters: "The sooner the war is over, the better for you and the better...
...must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
...salesmen-he began buying war goods as a member of France's U. S. mission in World War I. As member of the Paris banking house of Lazard Fréres, he also knows how business between the two countries is done in peacetime. No sooner had word of his arrival spread than eager agents began banging on his door at the French Line offices...