Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explain President Hoover's sudden precipitation of so explosive an issue at such a ticklish time, observers came to a combination of conclusions. Apparently this move was part of the new Hoover determination, visible in other matters as well (see col. 2), to take a stronger hand with Congress, especially the Senate. Another large factor was undoubtedly the great lobby pressure placed on the Administration by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Lobbyist Libby, experienced at building great fires under great men on great issues, has long concentrated the full influence...
What put these Dry sessions on the front pages of the public prints was not their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors...
...France where new millions of gold are piling up every day (see p. 16) and where the unemployment question does not exist, everything was going so well last week that the sudden fall of Prime Minister Andre Tardieu's Cabinet by the Senate could best be attributed to legislative pique...
...Lady of Threadneedle Street was seeking a credit abroad in the amount of one billion dollars. It was pointed out that short-term French credits in London last week almost equalled the gold reserve of the Bank of England, that the Old Lady must be ready to meet any sudden French demand, that she faces moreover two major Empire monetary problems: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden's reputed intent to convert a huge part of the $48,000,000,000 British 5% War bonds now outstanding, paying off the holders with the proceeds...
...hundred miles down the delta from New Orleans, Artist Brown discovered Boothville, La., on a peninsula 30 mi. long inhabited exclusively by leggers, river pilots and orange growers who live in houses raised on stilts to protect them from sudden floods and hurricanes. There he spends six months each year. His girl there was a beautiful redhead who was supposed to have descended from pirate stock. She eloped with a butcher...