Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elections in 1932, after both partners' deaths, the 9 a. m. edition of the Record appeared with a front-page editorial boosting its old friend & favorite, William Gibbs McAdoo, for the Senate. One hour later the Record came out with the McAdoo editorial missing, in its place an urgent plea for the election of the Rev. Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob'') Shuler, Prohibition candidate whom the Record had long flayed as a '"snooper" and "meddler." Readers who thought the editor had lost his mind dis covered that instead he had lost his job be tween editions, been...
Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, has made a through study of the urgent situation now confronting the Congress of the United States. Author of a series of articles on the question in the New Republic called "They Cry Peace, Peace," Mr. Bliven has just completed a tour of the country in an effort to determine the sentiment of the people...
...This must shortly be played when a new Chamber of Deputies is elected. To sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun last week Premier Laval handed the 99th Cabinet resignation under the Third Republic, the eleventh since the present Chamber was elected in 1932. He refused M. le President's urgent request that he attempt to form a new Cabinet. Obviously his best opening gambit was to facilitate the immediate formation of a Radical Socialist Cabinet and hope that it would, as in 1924 and 1925, make the traditional mess of French monetary affairs the Left has so often made...
...students rioted more & more savagely as Anthony Eden read on & on. Urgent cables from the British High Commissioner in Cairo caused "Tony" annoyance. Here he was a new Foreign Secretary, with his career to make, and the Egyptians would not wait for his orderly Eton mind to absorb the facts as they should be absorbed, slowly. In his annoyance the new Foreign Secretary wrote a reply referring the Egyptians to the speech on Egypt of his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, which so inflamed Egyptian passions that turbulence in Cairo has been rising ever since. The speech contained...
...have been obsessed with the urgent necessity of doing everything in my power to prevent an isolated war between Great Britain and Italy. . . . Let the House remember the conditions of modern warfare. Let them remember that in modern warfare events move very quickly. The aggressor has a great advantage. The aggressor has his forces mobilized. He is ready to strike and in conditions of modern warfare he can strike with appalling speed...