Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continent-wide figure, also overstrained his kidney. And Mitch believed last week that he faces angina pectoris. After the first shock of amazement, Ontario did not quite believe that its Premier will in fact resign after the legislative session next spring, as he is now resolved to do. He sped south to Florida last week and friends considered that by Christmas the impulsive and emotional Mitch may find himself feeling so much better that he needs must carry on. Cried sprinting Minister Croll after anxious cogitation: "Mr. Hepburn can't quit! We won't let him." Assuming that...
Moving swiftly. Governor Johnston set up a new Commission, dispatched Guardsmen to seize $1,871,352 of highway funds in three Columbia banks, announced he would have his promised $3 tags on sale within a fortnight. Also wasting no time, ousted Commissioner Sawyer & friends sped to the Chief Justice of South Carolina's Supreme Court, got an injunction forbidding the Johnston Commission to disburse highway funds. Banks promptly refused to honor the new Commission's vouchers. In this stalemate bewildered motorists reached the deadline for buying 1936 licenses, got high-priced tags or went without.* Those who waited...
...Roosevelt had appointed General Craig Chief-of-Staff of the U. S. Army, vice General Douglas MacArthur, who was on his way to the Philippines as that Commonwealth's new Military Adviser. General Craig jumped out of his golf clothes, pulled on mufti, hopped into his Packard cabriolet, sped off to the War Department to report for duty to slightly startled Acting Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring. That the President had decided to waste no time inducting a new Chief-of-Staff, had made his decision in so informal a fashion, was attributed to the general world-wide...
...from lush Penang Island in the Straits Settlements last week climbed a four-motored Imperial Airways airplane. For some 650 miles it sped across the Gulf of Siam to Saigon in French Indo-China, then 350 miles on to Tourane, finally another 550 miles straight across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. Thus, in the first of six trial flights, Imperial Airways Ltd. sprouted a new branch from its main stem between London and Australia. Carrying passengers and mail, the new service will run twice a week, is significant because it brings the trans-Asian airline within 80 miles...
...bearing the Cardinal's train; Joseph J. Mulholland, who got the job of ecclesiastical valet by writing a prize-winning essay on "The Influence and Benefit of the Congress to Catholics and non-Catholics of Cleveland." These four marked time for a day while the S. S. Rex sped into New York harbor bearing Monsignor Diego Venini, private chamberlain to the Pope, and Monsignor Carlo Grano, papal master of ceremonies, who proceeded to Cardinal Hayes's grey stone house on Madison Avenue behind St. Patrick's Cathedral. There they solemnly handed him his credentials as a Papal Legate. Next evening...