Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all Goldwyn productions, the producer's prompt rebuttal was painstaking and wellpublicized. Said he: "Johnston's manners are as bad as his judgment . . . I had hoped to withdraw . . . without commenting on [his] leadership, but this latest effusion from his word factory impels me to state a few matters...
Pond's letter was also forwarded to the CRIMSON by Philip S. Brown '30, who said "I think that the student body should be made aware of the motives that prompt all such alumni activities...
...nobody's surprise, U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's attack on Swiss Theologian Karl Barth for his speech before the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam (TIME, Nov. 8) got a prompt reply. Barth, Niebuhr had said, was preaching a dangerous doctrine, which, by concentrating on the Kingdom of God, made no provision for the tragic, practical decisions Christian men and Christian nations must make on the earthly plane. Earth's answer, published in the British fortnightly Christian News-Letter under the heading: "A Preliminary Reply to Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr," struck a sharp issue...
...come before the 81st Congress is public housing. A serious problem long before the War, it remained unsolved in the last session when the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill failed to win approval. It is understood that two housing bills will be given to the President this week to insure prompt attention in the next session...
...record, Dewey said simply and reassuringly that the U.S. is solidly behind "the labors of our bipartisan delegation at Paris and specifically its insistence on a prompt lifting of the blockade of Berlin." Said Dewey: "The nations of the world can rest assured that the American people are in fact united in their foreign policy and will firmly and unshakably uphold the United Nations...