Word: urgently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Venizelos political stronghold of Crete a so-called "general revolutionary strike" promptly broke out last week and Acting Premier Field Marshal George Kondylis asked Premier Tsaldaris what to do in an urgent long-distance call. "Do!" the Premier sputtered at the Marshal. "Why, raise the strikers' pay!" After 4,000 general revolutionary strikers had had their pay upped 15%, Crete subsided in the news, leaving seven dead, 50 wounded, censorship tight...
...Constitutionality of some of its provisions have arisen. . . . Manifestly, no one is in apposition to give assurance that the proposed act will withstand Constitutional tests, for the simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly fashion, the ultimate question of Constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful as indicating, with increasing clarity...
...Cambridge Board of Censors and the good Postmaster may well turn their attention to these crying situations when the urgent business which now engages them is somewhat lessened in volume...
...autocrat who held Russia with a firm hand, Catherine was democratic to a degree in her imperial household. If her enraged whist partner threw his cards at her feet, she would merely call the onlookers to witness that she had played her hand right. Once when she had an urgent letter to send and all her bell-pealing brought no servant, she found the lackeys busy playing cards, offered to take one of the men's hands while he went out to post the letter. She loved to laugh, and her guffaw was famous. But nothing suggestive ever roused...
...Anyhow China's urgent need is not money," concluded the Japanese Army's Doihara. sparkling-eyed. "What does China need? Peace! Stability...