Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how the little brown man justified his sudden haste to join the meeting, after turning stubborn at the last moment fortnight ago and refusing to sail with his colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little...
Only a fortnight ago Atlas Utilities Corp., investment trust headed by astute Floyd Bostwick Odium, 39, set Wall Street talking by its sudden acquisition of $9,000,000 Ungerleider Financial Corp. and $20,000,000 Sterling Securities Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Atlas made its twelfth purchase since June last year, one bigger than any of the others. This buy was control of Chatham Phenix Allied Corp., formed in September 1929, by the securities affiliate of $326,000,000-in- resources Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co., Manhattan...
...embezzlement were found in the dole administration AFTER Ford Motor Company officials cited hundreds of dole getters who were also drawing Ford pay. Additional facts are necessary to give the truth. The first and only significant embezzlement was discovered by two young bankers who became suspicious of the sudden wealth of one Alex F. Lewis, a clerk in the welfare department, who through an ingenious fraud obtained $207,000. He fooled not only the welfare administration but the Detroit Yacht Club which admitted him to membership and the Ford Motor Company, which permitted him to buy an interest...
Captain Lenin, Captain Trotsky and today Captain Stalin have never been afraid to alter Russia's course?the course of over one-seventh of the world?by a sudden titan's tug at the helm. Last week Captain Stalin tugged...
...there was the issue of the Jacksonville Agreement, which the operators claimed they could not live up to. But the hardship and wretchedness of this year's "starvation strike" appeared to be not the result of sudden conflict, but the festering of a chronic industrial disease...