Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week concluded with the return of John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to the scene of the negotiations. He straightway dispatched a letter to Samuel D. Warriner, President of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., charging that the operators' negotiating committee was composed mostly of underlings and had no intention of coming to an agreement, and charging that Mr. Warriner and W. J. Richards (President of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Corporation), who had been two of the chief negotiators in: previous years, were holding back. He said that the conference so far meant nothing...
...more venerable professors of Liverpool University last week grunted wrathfully. They were advised by their Chancellor, his Lordship the Earl of Derby, that those among them who had achieved the age of 65 would straightway be requested to retire. The old gentlemen were unanimous in protesting that, if the rule were to stand, pensions more adequate than the present ones should be arranged...
There is nothing complacent about Walter P. Chrysler, super-mechanic. Fame and a fabulous salary were his when he boomed the Buick. He straightway proceeded to crank up Willys-Overland. Then he steered Maxwell and Chalmers around a parlous financial corner. Next he put his name on 32,000 little winged bullets-Chrysler Sixes-and sent them flying through the land...
...Straightway, Mr. Woodlock received from the President an offer of a recess appointment. He agreed to be sworn into the ninth chair...
...through the day and afternoon such was the situation; but, long before the enemy was sighted, the first part of the battle had taken place. The Black Fleet listened to the radio signals of the Blue ships- the code was taken down and, after a time, experts deciphered it. Straightway, the Black Fleet sent out false signals in the deciphered code, and misled numbers of the scattered Blues...