Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clean shirts and Charlie Chan. Japan means harakiri, imperialism, post cards of Fujiyama, and the Yellow Peril. That Franklin Roosevelt had correctly gauged public psychology in giving a cue to all good citizens that the time had come when moral indignation need no longer be suppressed appeared from, the swift reaction to his speech. Europe naturally was pleased but the U. S. press also produced more words of approval, some enthusiastic and some tempered, than have greeted any Roosevelt step in many a month...
After quoting Dean Swift, he compared his approach to the "intuition of great business men" in making judgments. He argued that although President Lowell believed a "conflict of principles," existed in business, there was no need for one, and that it could be settled by abolishing prejudice...
...Communist forces, now comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops were disarmed. In the second battle our Communist troops penetrated clear to the rear of the Japanese lines by employing 'flying tactics' we used to use against Nanking...
...There is another recipe," the Reichsbanker told the savings bankers with scorn in his tone. "It is to print bank notes, as many as are needed. Swift price increases would be the result, with wage rises lagging behind. Such 'compulsory saving' we have had before and called it inflation...
Smaller than the other three of the "Big Four" (Swift, Armour, Wilson), Cudahy suffered more because most of its slaughtering houses were in the drought area and it lacks its bigger rivals' range of by-products to tide it over. In the last fiscal year ending October 1936, Cudahy made $1,815,000 or $2.65 per common share. So far this year it has paid $1.87½ per common share. In passing last week's dividend, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. explained: "Smaller volume of raw material, together with substantial increases in wages, various additional forms of taxes...