He went and interrogated the mortgage people and the loan people, learning new things, and this led to swift promotions.

"It looks as if we have to congratulate you on a good and swift promotion," said Martha.

Herault, he thought, must be recommended to the Emperor, and he wrote the general's name in his small black notebook and added a star which was Ducos's code for a man who might well deserve swift promotion.

He earned swift promotion, becoming a department manager.

"Do you hope for such a swift promotion, taking right of leadership like that?"

Julien was returned to uniformed patrol, but was promised a swift promotion to Detective.

The shattering blow of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 led to swift promotion and greater responsibility.

Reg Finch, another swift promotion, forty years old and very decisive, had taken-over Dalby's old sector in the Mediterranean covering France, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Switzerland.

From the standpoint of a professional military man there is one good thing about revolutions: the opportunities for swift promotion are excellent . . . even if the pay is inclined to be irregular.

I remember that the gathered warriors did much boasting of their deeds in the recent war, and in wars past, and there were many toasts to my own first victory and my swift promotion upward through the ranks.