Word: promptings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...statement's language. First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett practiced what he had preached about "every day" English. There was no bureaucratic circumlocution, no departmental obscurity. Mr. Bartlett said: "Special Delivery letters must not be allowed to accumulate for the convenience of Special Delivery carriers. They must be delivered promptly and as soon as received, even if the carriers do have to retrace their steps. If you are not getting good results on your Special Deliveries, it would be a good idea to change the man who supervises it and put in somebody that can get results. If the boys...
...about the matter. . . . The only thing in which I am really interested is the sale of locomotives." His friends could well picture how Mr. Vauclain's long, humorous upper lip drew down when he said that. He was obviously temporizing, playing a part, and he is skillful and prompt at playing parts when necessary. The overnight discovery of a quorum last week recalled Mr. Vauclain's tactics when, at the start of a rail strike, labor delegates visited the 25,000 non-union workers in his "little foundry." In 20 minutes he had jailed all the delegates...
Last week Senator Reed Smoot of Utah read Herber C. Hoover's report on flood conditions (see catastrophe) ; came to the conclusion that a special Congressional session, not later than Nov. 1, was "absolutely necessary if flood sufferers are to obtain prompt and adequate relief." It was recalled that Senator Smoot has been urging a special session for more than a month; that he is Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; that even after perusal of the Hoover report he put the passage of the Deficiency BUI (filibustered out at the last session of Congress) as the first duty...
...continuing to base military strategy on the operations of "archaic" warships, but his observations were not widely published. Last week, however, the failure of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to function properly when the aviator attempted to fly in it from Washington to Manhattan, prompted Mr. Mitchell to further criticisms. After maintaining that the Spirit of St. Louis suffered exposure to corrosive salt air while being transported home on the U. S. cruiser Memphis ("there was no excuse for not keeping this plane safe and dry"), Mr. Mitchell added that the plane was under naval...
...occured at the Library in connection with this course. Within a few days the eight final pages of the article on Aesthetics have been torn from the reading-room copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, presumably by some member of the course. Such an act will, I am sure, be promptly and vigorously condemned by every one of the other 35 members of Psychology 9, and even, I hope, by the who who did it, when he reflects that his deed wronged his fellow students who had the same right to the use of this article that he had, and wronged...