Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Pollard asked Massachusetts' Governor Ely to send Crawford down to stand trial. There were formal hearings. Boston witnesses upheld his alibi. Virginia witnesses knocked it down. A confession was introduced only to be repudiated. Governor Ely signed papers for George Crawford's return to Virginia- when suddenly, last week, in stepped the might and majesty of the Federal Government. Overnight George Crawford became a national headline character potentially as famous as that other obscure Negro, Dred Scott.* Into the Boston court of U. S. District Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's president, had gone...
...Suddenly he turns a corner, steps into the full of the strong wind coming out of the southward dusk, laden with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon...
...they could not direct-quote the President. But there was the stark fact: the President was embargoing the export of gold. It meant that the dollar, no longer convertible into gold, would have to shift for itself in foreign exchange and seek its own level downward. Was this a sudden decision by the President? No, he had planned the embargo order four days before. What was his primary purpose? To raise domestic commodity prices and halt the grueling pressure of deflation. If the dollar depreciated 10% in the world market, cotton, for example, should automatically appreciate by the same amount...
...girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most of Miss Walker's girls had to be put up that night at an inn, a country club, in homes in Simsbury and Farmington...
...Reasonable limitations" to control the sudden shifting of large commercial deposits (which aggravated the spread of the banking crisis...