Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago was there, and Dr. James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist. Drs. Shailer Mathews and Theodore G. Scares of the Chicago University divinity school, and Maurice L. Goodkind of the medical school, were there. So were Lessing Rosenthal, Dr. Louis Mann, Harold H. Swift and other important Chicago south-siders-all at the home of Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, for a party as distinguished as it was unusual...
...hand and, without asking, correctly stated the name of his dead mother: "Augusta Hammerslough Rosenwald." Dr. Goodkind thought of the medical term for a rare disease, a term occupying several lines of newsprint. Mr. Khaldah concentrated, could not pronounce the term but spelled it out correctly. Mr. Swift was informed of the date and place of his father's birth. Dr. Breasted wrote out a sentence in Arabian and hid it. Mr. Khaldah recited it sight unseen. He stood 20 or 30 feet from his marveling audience and drew for them geometrical designs they pictured mentally; uttered correctly combinations...
Soon the sleek motor of the Prince Regent purred forth, on its way to the Imperial Palace. Darting from the crowd, Hirayama tried to leap upon the running board and force his petition into Prince Hirohito's hand. Swift, a police sergeant seized him before he could touch the Imperial car. At the police station he said: "Had my mission been successful would have committed hara kiri immediately in atonement for disrespectfully approaching the Prince Regent...
...Morgan's merely opened their books and snapped them shut, for $500,000,000 in subscriptions tumbled in. Immediately, Standard Oil of New York offered $50,000,000 debenture bonds at 4½% interest. Dillon, Read & Co. bought them all up, knowing that the bonds had a swift sale.* Standard Oil of New Jersey's yearly interest on this item will be $6,000,000. Had its bonds been sold at the 4½% of its sister company's it would have saved $600,000 yearly in interest...
...Clarence Dillon is noted for his swift cavalry-like flank attacks. Thus, it was said that not until two days before the purchase of these bonds did he bother his head about them...