Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber had differed too much for Harper Sibley's "friendly spirit" to impress the White House. By one swift maneuver President Roosevelt stripped the Chamber of its right to speak for U. S. Business. Before the Chambermen had time to pack their grips, safely seated in the Executive Offices was another body of businessmen, pledging almost unqualified support to the New Deal. That body was the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file...
...organ out of first circulation place (TIME, April 29). No man to take this lying down is Max Amann. Two years ago Employer Hitler made him President of the Chamber of the German Press with vast theoretical powers. They came in handy last week. Crystalizing them with swift pen strokes, Nazi Max ripped out and signed three decrees mak-ing himself on their face Master of the Press...
After tea and compliments Young Chang ordered his U. S. pilot to fly him to Yunnanfu. Half an hour later he was soaring over Chinese Communist troops, too high and too swift to be pinged by their poor marksmanship. Suddenly the Boeing began to sputter and Chang's heart was in his mouth. If his plane were forced down and they caught him, the Young Marshal could count on being tortured carefully to death. As his U. S. pilot put his ship prayerfully into a long glide, bullets came pinging close, but on she skimmed. Abruptly she resumed...
Fenninger, Captain Keppel, Gawthrop, Kelly, Swift, Hallett, Bugbee, Stoddard, and Firestone are slated to start for the Tigers...
Ramsay MacDonald, arriving home by airplane, was in time to be ignored by the house while every eager eye followed the tall Chancellor's stork-like dipping into his notes, the swift gestures of his right hand in which he held his eyeglasses and the Chamberlain mannerism of emphasizing a point by tapping smartly with the twinkling glasses...