Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Democratic Nominee Franklin Roosevelt made his big 1936 bid for the farm vote. In addition to such boons as AAA, FCA, RA which he has in the past three years offered Agriculture, in a swift play from Hyde Park he upped this already respectable ante. He appointed a committee headed by Rural Electrification's Morris L. Cooke to figure out a long term anti-drought program. He appointed another committee headed by Secretary Wallace to draw up plans for some form of crop insurance on at least one or two major crops. He wrote to the Senate...
...greatest victory of Spain's present Civil War, swift-marching, ruthlessly bayoneting White regulars of the Spanish Army, the polyglot Foreign Legion and their tough Moorish mercenaries drove up to the city of Toledo by the back way last week, shot and stuck and butchered through Red Militia fighting like wildcats in the narrow streets with machine guns chattering on every corner, finally burst into the bloodier streets of the Old City and forced their way to its rocky heights to relieve the besieged Alcázar Fortress, the heroic West Point of Spain (TIME, Sept...
...managers "were intent only on what the box office receipts testified to be of immediate appeal," is a criticism equally applicable to the drama in Shakespeare's day. Having but placed us in a receptive state of mind, Mr. Nicoll proceeds to give an historical summary of the amazingly swift development of the cinema from its genesis thirty years ago. He provides the uninitiated with an informative sketch of the structure of a film and its component parts. He gives his opinion of the proper aims of the cinema and of the roads which will lead to dead ends...
...justification of his choice of Landon over Roosevelt, the aging boss of the Emporia Gazette explains this philosophy: "Economic thinking moves like molasses in January. Sometimes revolutionary action is swift and fluid and brings economic change with breath-taking rapidity...
...Cornish landowning family in 1754, Bligh went to sea at the age of 7, was sailing-master for Captain Cook at 22. On Cook's last voyage he acquitted himself well when that great explorer was killed by savages, had gained considerable reputation for his courage and swift decisions by 1787, when he was given command of the Bounty for her ill-fated voyage transporting breadfruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies. Although Dr. Mackaness roundly insists that Bligh was considerate of his men. quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among...