Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vulgar tycoon's party next door, does not know that she is married. Wandering into the second act set, a superb garden with two great oaks and gardenia roses, Miss Fears falls in love with garden, house, young man. When she pronounces Rockefeller correctly he straightway takes her to his aunt who approves, and dies happily. The girl explains that she is married, that her coarse husband has been kind in his way. As she goes back to the party next door and her husband, the young socialite is left in the dark with the body of his aunt...
...This winter no German shall starve!" promised Adolf Hitler last month, and straightway set about raising a Winter Relief Fund of 500,000,000 marks ($175,000,000 Roosevelt), largest in German history. Though contributions are supposed to be "voluntary," resolute Storm Troops have enforced the principle that German workers must contribute 1% of their net wages, salaried employes a little more, housewives a monthly sum which they are required to save by denying their families one hearty Sunday dinner per month, substituting a meal which must not cost over 50 pfennigs per person. Officially the 500,000,000-mark...
...fast how easy it was-to the other barracks, to the police, to the rural guard, to the Navy. This was the bloodless "revolt of the sergeants." They held the forts, ships, men, artillery. If it came to a showdown, they held the balance of power. Their leader was straightway made Chief of Staff and Revolutionary Leader of the Armed Forces. He was Top Sergeant Fulgencio Batista, who as a sharp-eyed court stenographer had listened for eight years to the Machado trials of revolutionary suspects. Surrounded by bully boys from the barracks, he was as tough as any. Despite...
They went to the offices of Mills Research Corp., No. 276 Fifth Ave., and asked to see its president, Maxwell H. Brown. Told that Mr. Brown was out they made an appointment to see him. Returning later, they were ushered into the office of a dignified, white-haired executive. Straightway they fell to questioning him, accused him of operating a chain-selling racket, collecting $2,000 a day from deluded women who sent in $1 for six pairs of silk stockings. Untycoonlike confusion came over the venerable businessman. He stammered as if with stage fright, finally broke down, confessed...
...have no intention now or hereafter of resigning." declared Secretary of State Hull to newshawks as he debarked from S. S. President Harding in Manhattan and straightway motored off to Hyde Park to report to President Roosevelt on the World Economic Conference. At the President's summer home where he was a weekend guest he again assured reporters that he was staying in the Cabinet. When he got back to Washington he said the same thing. These denials seemed to dispose of persistent rumors of the most serious ruction in the Cabinet since March...