Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile bearing agents of the U. S. House of Representatives. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue in hot pursuit sped an automobile bearing agents of the U. S. Senate. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue whizzed an automobile bearing Washington police officers. Speed laws were ignored while pedestrians leaped for their lives. One- two-three, the automobiles screeched to a halt in front of the swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby...
Since money-hugging French Proletarians scarcely think of how much they work in their concentration on how much they earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...
These decree efforts were featured last week by earmarking two billion francs ($132,500,000) to be spent with all speed on employment-creating public works, half by the national Government and the other half by the 86 French prefectures. Obviously, the moment was opportune for Premier Laval to pull tighter the reins by which Paris controls France. For the first time in history all prefects were summoned to the Capital. Most made their trip in their official limousines and gleaming, long-snouted Renaults roared in over all the main roads of France...
Except President Roosevelt, no man could predict the magic date of adjournment with more authority than Senate Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson. Last week Senator Robinson clopped out of the President's office, observed: "We want to speed adjournment all we can. Of course, there are several bills still in conference between the Senate and the House for final adjustment, and there are some others that the President would like to see action upon. . . . Under the circumstances I feel we will be fortunate to get through by Aug. 20." Lending weight to the Majority Leader's cautious hint...
...will clamber into the Dodge sedan, in which the back seat has been replaced with a large chair, slightly raised and overstuffed under red damask. In front of this is a small folding seat for the Pope's secretary. According to Papal Chauffeur Angelo Stoppa: "His Holiness likes speed. He orders me to drive between 40 and 45 m.p.h., and he likes it. The Pope does not speak to me very often when he is riding. In the Dodge his orders are given through special signals on the dashboard. There are only four of them-for the Italian equivalent...