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"There's 1,200 human beings here, children and adults, that are getting permanent housing at one fell swoop," Mr. Banks said.
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AT ONE FELL swoop, India's central government has ended the special status enjoyed by Jammu & Kashmir and abolished it as a state.
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The British victory at Buxar had "at one fell swoop", disposed of the three main scions of Mughal power in Upper India. Mir Kasim [Qasim] disappeared into an impoverished obscurity. Shah Alam realigned himself with the British, and Shah Shuja [Shuja-ud-Daula] fled west hotly pursued by the victors. The whole Ganges valley lay at the Company's mercy; Shah Shuja eventually surrendered; henceforth Company troops became the power-brokers throughout Oudh as well as Bihar.
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In 1982, the American Advertising Federation (AAF) inducted Bates with Charles H. Brower and Bernice Fitz-Gibbon to the Advertising Hall of Fame. His creative partner, advertising maverick Rosser Reeves, described the reasons for Bates' success at the induction: > There are two things not commonly known which I want to put on the record > today. Very early on at one fell swoop, Ted Bates gave away 90 percent of > his agency to his key people. When I asked him why, he said, 'Rosser, I > would rather own 10 percent of a success than 100 percent of a failure.
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That compelling the masters to treat their children better will > REDUCE wages, and, what is very singular, will, at the same time RAISE THE > PRICE of goods to the consumers. Thus destroying at one fell swoop the > maker, the buyer, the consumer – both the home and foreign markets will be > lost – the agricultural and landed proprietor ruined:- all this they say > will be the consequences if poor little English children are protected from > the cruelty and oppression of their worse than Egyptian task-masters. Happy > England, whose very existence depends upon thy cruelty to infants! ... Self > interest and avarice, and not necessity now goad thee on to ruin.
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In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would "on a certain day...rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop." He requested an increase in his budget to $2,000,000 from $1,500,000 to support his investigations of radicals, but Congress limited the increase to $100,000.Hagedorn, 229–30; Coben, 211 An initial raid in July 1919 against an anarchist group in Buffalo, New York, achieved little when a federal judge tossed out Palmer's case. He found in the case that the three arrested radicals, charged under a law dating from the Civil War, had proposed transforming the government by using their free speech rights and not by violence.
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