Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press conference next morning, fuming Secretary Morgenthau announced that he would furnish a prompt answer to Mr. May's challenge. His answer, in a letter to the Finance Committee's Chair man Pat Harrison, was to admit a "possible ambiguity" in his phraseology...
They were the bosses of the potent Kansas City Star, a traditionally Republican newspaper which had backed Democratic Governor Harry Woodring for re-election in 1932, made a prompt post-election switch to Winner Landon. Managing Editor Roy Roberts, one of Herbert Hoover's best newspaper friends in his days as the Star's able Washington correspondent, had gone to University of Kansas with Alf Landon. The manager of the Stars Kansas bureau, Lacy Haynes, who, as the shrewdest and best-informed political observer in Kansas, is popularly supposed to have dictated...
Taking over his new duties last week, Superintendent Johnson got a shiny official Cadillac, an office filled with roses and snapdragons, a stern ultimatum from potent North Central Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools. Unless, the Association intimated, Chicago took prompt steps to enlarge its high-school teaching staff, North Central would remove understaffed Chicago schools from its accredited list, make their graduates take examinations to enter the Association's member colleges...
...only able to put on record the fact that the mission of information confided to its president must be considered as fulfilled. It notes equally that if the appeal which was addressed on March 3 to the Italian and Ethiopian Governments has received answers giving rise to hopes of prompt cessation of hostilities, these hopes must for the moment be abandoned...
Finally the Treaty binds all signatories to send each other prompt particulars of all warboats which they intend to build, are building for themselves or other countries in their yards, have completed or have bought...