Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind's eye swimming with "fifth columns," the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee last week took a quick look under the bed. It thought it saw a popeyed man named Harry Bridges. Led by popeyed Congressman A. Leonard Allen of Louisiana, it straightway reported out a bill to save the country by deporting...
...Straightway trouble broke; heads were cracked, noses bloodied in a miniature Sino-Japanese war; the Japanese captain skipped. The "Chinese" owners tried to have the crew arrested for mutiny; courts held that the Chinese consul general had jurisdiction over boats flying the Chinese flag. Messrs. Chan and Wang were promoted to captain and chief engineer respectively; the other hands sailed on other ships...
Macdonald's running mate in the trial was Dave Ives, the broad jumper, who was unable to push Torbie, finishing about four yards back at the tape. Ives was off his mark first, but Macdonald passed him midway down the straightway and won the case...
...Clergyman Lester H. Clee, carried 15 of Jersey's 21 counties. But when Hudson's poll was reported, Hague's Moore was found to have won by 45,266 votes. In vain did Pastor Clee charge that the Hudson vote was fraudulent. Ballot boxes were straightway locked up, Hague-controlled election officials and judges refused to let anybody get near them, and Pastor Clee went back to his church. Many an unproved charge has been made of Hudson County: of its floaters, of more registrations than there are eligible voters, of dead men still voting the straight...
...lawyer, a grandnephew of the late Elihu Root, started a one-man campaign for Mr. Willkie, whom he had never met. Mr. Root's first step was to mail thousands of statements (each carrying spaces for 15 signatures) declaring the signers' enthusiasm for Mr. Willkie as President. Straightway he began to receive contributions. last week opened an office, announced he had already received 35,000 requests for "declarations." What did Mr. Willkie's Root intend to do with all these fertilizing signatures? Mr. Root had not yet decided...