Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consulate and to the Empire. You are so completely identified with the Bank as conceived by its founders, that, since the day has come to rejuvenate this old house, it appears impossible to invite you to participate in this restoration." Inexpressibly shocking to French business was the prompt appointment by the Government to the new board of Regents of goateed, rabble-rousing Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux, who last week flew to Spain's "Red" Government Capital of Madrid. To Paris businessmen this suggested that M. Jouhaux had gone to arrange a loan by the Bank of France to Spanish...
Second result was that, in prompt accord with Gresham's Law (bad money drives out good), nobody paid for anything in "real" money if he had Aberscrip to spend...
...Amos O. Squire, consulting physician at New York State's Sing Sing Prison, declare: "Only rarely have I known of [Boy] Scouts landing in penal institutions." The Rotarians liked that because they are earnest supporters of boys' organizations. Then the Rotarians debated and tabled a resolution favoring prompt completion of the Inter-American Highway (see p. 44), debated and adopted a resolution "expressing interest" in an international language...
...Contracts, establishing an NRA-like code of wages and working conditions (8-hour day, 40-hour week, prevailing wages) for manufacturers and distributors who sell the Government at least $10,000 worth of goods per year. Expected to affect 75% of the nation's industry, it brought a prompt protest from steelmen who argued that Government supplies were a minor part of their business...
Recently, when Sir Samuel's policy of making peace between Italy and Ethiopia crashed and he resigned as Foreign Secretary (TIME, Dec. 30), Mr. Gandhi was prompt with a letter of personal sympathy posted to No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. Sir Samuel's prompt decision to resign then was, last week in British eyes, a symbol of the qualities of firmness which should make him a great First Lord. In contrast to this, his successor as Foreign Secretary, young Anthony Eden, cut a sorry figure in the House of Commons as his Sanctionist policy crashed...