Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tightened up, provision be made for arbitration of disputes not settled by earlier steps. Mr. Weckler said ho, arbitration was impossible; that it meant, in the final analysis, the handing-over of plant operation to outsiders. Neither side disclosed what kind of arbitration plan was discussed. Mr. Frankensteen straightway produced a 1933 Chrysler agreement, in which arbitration was a major provision of Walter Percy Chrysler's company-union plan...
...undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...
...before he was even half way through Vieuxtemps' rhetorical D Minor Concerto, the Philharmonic's audience was shouting and stamping fit to bust the buttons off its stuffed shirts. When it was over, self-possessed little Violinist Virovai was given a terrific hand. Critics straightway placed him in the front rank of present-day fiddlers, acclaimed his appearance as one of the most exciting debuts ever heard in Carnegie Hall...
...official of the British Communist Party. Mr. Strachey denounced this charge as false, demanded a hearing from the State Department. The Department frostily agreed to grant one in London. But the American Civil Liberties Union and other outraged liberals began wiring Franklin Roosevelt and the Department of Labor, which straightway granted Writer Strachey a hearing on a technicality having nothing to do with Communism. As he repaired there at week's end, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear an appeal on the Strecker deportation case. This case may establish that membership in the Communist Party...
...novelist describe a hurricane at sea and straightway critics raise a hue because his hurricane is a pale imitation of the one Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published...