Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without division the sober Senators of the Irish Free State passed a resolution last week asking thin-necked President Eamon de Valera. of whom they do not approve, to negotiate with Great Britain to settle Ireland's most urgent problem immediately: Whether the Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries...
...manner of Governor Roosevelt quoting great Democrats of the dead past, Prime Minister MacDonald opened the Conference with a speech quoting the Basle Committee's urgent advice last year that "adjustment of all intergovernmental debts to the existing troubled situation of the world . . . should take place without delay if new disasters are to be avoided" (TIME, Jan. 4). A great orator, Scot MacDonald gave new freshness to this stale, sound advice by rolling out such exhortations...
...must not sign that bill-but he had. Well then, he must not publish it in the Veracruz Official Gazette, thereby making it law. But the Gazette's press was already clanking and groaning last week when President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico finally decided to send an urgent, peremptory wire to Governor Adalberto Tejeda of the State of Veracruz...
Intimates of President von Hindenburg advanced a remarkable hypothesis. They suggested that Old Paul had never heard of von Papen's recall from the U. S. on Dec. 10, 1915 by the Imperial German Government at the urgent request of President Wilson. Very likely Der Feldmarschall was too busy in April 1916 trying to win the War to read of the U. S. indictment charging Military Attaché von Papen of the Imperial German Embassy in Washington with conspiracy to blow up Canada's Welland Canal...
...suicide evil is the most sinister specter of our national life, next to murder, which marks the U. S. as the most murderous nation on the face of the globe,'' wrote Consulting Statistician Dr. Hoffman for this week's Spectator. "There is the most urgent need for the organization of a national society for the study and prevention of suicide based on sound principles of voluntary service to render aid and advice to those in desperate need...