Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last April Mayor Kelly began a campaign against all forms of underworld skullduggery; his determination and that of his subordinates has brought results. This drive has concentrated on illicit gambling dens, alky-cookers' work-shops, and blemishes on the face of society. Swift and inexorable action on the part of the law has taught Chicago criminals the wisdom of following Mr. Kipling's advice, and changing their spots. Faced with the loss of revenue from the bootlegging industry and vigorous destruction of other sources of income, the criminal, it seems, can be suppressed if not completely wiped out. Chicago hitherto...
...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MISCELLANY - edited by Louis Kronenberger-Putnam ($3). Nine selections from the poetry and prose of the Age of Reason, with an introduction pointing out how little the present age has in common with it. Sterne, Blake, Sheridan, Gibbon, Walpole, Swift, Pope, Gay and the Earl of Chester field serve as examples...
...Barthou's theory that to try to please everyone was nonsense and that the enemy of France is always going to be Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that...
KATHRYN R. SWIFT...
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