Word: prompt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refusing to accept the League of Nations many years must be lost before the benefit to the rest of the world that would have been caused by our prompt entrance can be fully made up," said Hamilton Holt, editor of the "Independent' and prominent pro-League Republican, in an interview recently with a representative of the CRIMSON: The popularity that was ours during the war has also been lost; this however, will be regained whenever we decide to accept the covenant, but the moral to accept the covenant, but the moral prestige lost can never be fully recovered, for when...
...bring about our entrance into the League, yet, in supporting him, they have placed themselves in a position of tremendous responsibility to the people, and only by our entering the League will this responsibility be relieved from them. The best thing for pro-Leaguers to do in furthering our prompt entrance is to give united support to the Committee of Thirty-one and their followers. But when the final showdown comes, as it soon must, and the Committee of Thirty-one allies itself with League opponents, there is nothing for us to do but fight...
Seniors are reminded that they will greatly aid the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Class by a prompt return of the blanks mailed them last week...
News comes from Washington that a coalition of farmer organizations and labor unions called the "People's Reconstruction League" is making plans to obtain the passage of legislation in Congress to accomplish the prompt restoration of the railroads to unified government operation; control of the meat packing industry by legislation; retention of the excess profits, estate and income tax on land holdings; short time rural credit system for farmers effected through a system of co-operative banks aided by the federal government; public ownership and development of all natural resources; and the defeat of compulsory military training...
...committee in charge of the arrangements for the M. I. T. intercollegiate conference to be held April 15 and 16 have made several important provisions for the prompt carrying on of the business of the meeting with a minimum amount of fruitless discussion. Each of the 41 colleges represented has been asked to send in to the executive committee in advance a definite list of the topics it wishes to have discussed. The executive committee will be in charge at all meetings, and will have the power to limit the discussion and argument to topics of major importance...