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...pronunciamento declaring that the threat of New Deal reform measures was all that blocked the pent-up surge of recovery. With a last-minute addition to his speech, President Roosevelt at once delivered a bold reply, outlined his "must" program of legislation, asked the electorate to help him prod Congress to action. Items...
...cares for her and not the Hunter fortune, Dorothy encourages him to make love to the secretary. Equipped with more common sense than perspicacity, he does so until the combination of a week-end in the Adirondacks, a bowl of hot punch and the secretary's husband prod him into a proper proposal of marriage...
...feel you must please teachers and prod pupils with a weekly quiz on the news, why not send a one-page quiz supplement to your school subscribers rather than annoy other subscribers with a column of silly questions such as you inserted on p. 50 (TIME, Jan. 22) at the suggestion of Teacher Hall...
After Congress (by the Thomas amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act) put it up to the President to inflate in five different ways, Senator Thomas did not relax but stayed close to Washington, all last summer and autumn, to prod the President on. In September he wired all the members of Congress, lining them up "20-to-1" for the program of inflation. In October he was ballyhooing a march of 1,000,000 men on Washington unless the Administration took inflationary steps...
Thousands of closed banks remained a pothole in the road to Recovery. Last week the President was preparing to prod the R. F. C. on toward reopening them by buying their preferred stock, thereby releasing billions of frozen deposits as new purchasing power...