Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straightway the Chicago Daily News correspondent at Riga provided him with clothing, food. Soon he will journey to meet his children who have been awaiting his release at Constantinople...
...Straightway the Premier's news-organ, II Giornale d'Italia, began a contest to choose names for the cubs. Scores of Fascists suggested "Bastone,"* "Eia"† and "Alala."† Some hundreds of imperialist Fascists suggested the names of three areas which Italy would like to wrest from France: "Nice," "Savoie" and "Tunis...
...Volstead and for Governor by J. A. O. Preus, Mr. Shipstead climbed into his Ford in 1922 and snorted on to Washington ahead of Frank B. Kellogg, who drove a Pierce Arrow in that Senate race. On arrival, Mr. Shipstead was put on the Foreign Relations Committee and straightway issued his ultimatum to the Senate: "You may think that because you have been good enough to give me this committee appointment, which I am proud to have, I will let up on being hostile and disagreeable and mean and nasty to the Republican and Democratic parties. I will...
...Schund und Schmutz." Herr Doktor Wilhelm Kuelz, Minister of Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed...
...Straightway General Kondylis...