Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators closed the bargain. Swiftly amended by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the resolution sped through the House without a record vote. The Senate accepted it by a thumping...
...Breaking off his South German rustication at last, the Realmleader sped north to Kiel this week, watched naval war games from the flagship Schleswig- Holstein with Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg and No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Air Minister and Prussian Premier...
Thus enlightened, Washington officials sped a $2,000,000 check order to Sacramento by telegraph. There it was learned that Governor Merriam was in Long Beach, 500 mi. away. But he would be in Los Angeles at 2 p. m. to sign the check. Southward zoomed the check by airplane. At 2 p. m. Governor Merriam was still in Long Beach, having a tooth pulled. Could his secretary sign for him? No, ruled a Federal official, nobody but the Governor. A messenger leaped into an automobile, roared out to Long Beach with the check. The Governor signed. Another messenger leaped...
With Berlin boiling about Jews, Dr. Schacht sped up to cool East Prussia, opened the Konigsberg Fair with a bold declaration that Nazi extremism is "damned dangerous...
...recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...