Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the new bill, whose prompt passage by the House was assured, only volunteers may be sent overseas. This worried the Navy Department not at all-many more WAVES want to go than can possibly be sent...
...beyond these, there were literally hundreds of other questions, major & minor, calling for prompt answers. Previous Roosevelt-Churchill conferences had been largely confined to military strategy. Now they faced tougher and knottier problems. Some of them: should France take part in the Pacific war? What of Rumanian peace terms (the Russians were waiting for an Anglo-American reply)? What if revolution hits Spain after Germany's collapse? What of the old, graveling question of Polish boundaries? What of postwar lend-lease to Britain? What-and this might not be too small an aside- of the U.S. election? And, finally...
...reaction in Congress and in the U.S. was prompt and nonpartisan approval. And, while Congress will not tackle the politically ticklish job of passing a peacetime military-training law before elections, there was talk in Washington that such a proposal would be considered before year...
...either Tom Dewey or Franklin Roosevelt in submitting U.S. sovereignty to the control of an international peace institution. And last week he urged that the President be allowed to call out troops without the prior consent of Congress. so that any military decision by a world society will be prompt and effective...
...conservative Frank Gavin will get prompt answers to his invitations. And if the sale goes through according to plan, Great Northern's annual interest charges will be a modest $10.5 million a year, against $12.5 million of last year and the worrisome $19.5 million...