Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Straightway Patriarch Varnava commanded all Orthodox Jugoslavs, in Jugoslavia to pray on the following Sunday "for the return of prosperity to the United States...
Eliot sent his affirmative decision to the Corporation straightway. He was formally accepted and made president subject to the concurrence of the Overseers. As before mentioned, a concurrent vote of the Overseers was necessary to the validation of the Corporation's choice, and it is a familiar bit of Harvard history that for a while the Overseers declined to concur. The many questions concerning the future are said to have excited opposition in many quarters. The conservatives feared that his election would mean the decline of their influence. The Overseers referred the nomination to a committee on March...
...moth invasion. Previous ones: 1862,1908, 1909. The Times, quoting from its own contemporary account, said: "On July 16, 1908, the insects descended upon an amazed city, frightening dowagers and amazing infants. ... A 3-year-old boy became excited and fell from a window to his death. . . . Their habitat straightway became coatsleeves, hair, beards, wilting collars, brightly lighted hotels and soups and salads of French phraseology and price...
...youthful President William Samuel Paley, honeymooning at Honolulu with his bride, the former Mrs. John Hearst, was notified of the decision. Straightway flashed a cable from President Paley to his First Vice President Edward Klauber in Manhattan. Said President Paley in effect: "Big political news will be breaking before November. Election campaigns will approach fever heat in September and October. National issues will loom large in the public eye. Let CBS augment its facilities for reporting that news by presenting 'The March of Time' two months earlier as a sustaining feature entirely at its own expense...
...Mills warned the Finance Committee that the bill was still $285,000,000 short of balancing, urged passage of: 1) a "manufacturers' excise tax along the lines of Senator Walsh's . . . amendment;" 2) the Connally amendment to raise $70,000,000 by restoring 1922 income tax rates. Straightway the Senate passed the Connally amendment, had scarcely ended its vote when President Hoover unexpectedly appeared at the Speaker's rostrum...