Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, owlish Fred Vinson, President Truman's War Mobilizer, told the committee that the San Francisco conference would be helped by prompt action on both reciprocal trade agreements and the Bretton Woods monetary plan. Fred Vinson, an old hand at Congressional quizzing, was in no mood for fooling. When Knutson asked him if lower tariffs were not like lower immigration controls, he replied: "I read the newspapers, you know. You asked that question of another fellow. You reared up and operated on him and then apologized...
Professor Fay insisted on "prompt, severe, fair, and just trials" as having an excellent psychological effect on the Germans, who will then see that crimes of this sort will not be tolerated...
...arms, the struggling local wrote letters to the school board, demanding a prompt hearing. But the chances were that the case would end like many another...
Reaction to the rotation plan was prompt. Jews denounced it as "unjust, unfeasible." Arabs called a general strike...
...citation continued: "During initial assault phases Lt. Seaman efficiently co-ordinated action of his command with those of Naval Combat Demolition Units, Pontoon Causeway Units, and the off-shore traffic control unit to provide for the prompt clearing, organization and efficient operation of his beach areas . . . (Lt. Seaman) contributed materially to the success of the invasion and to proper maintenance of the Allied Armies in Southern France...