Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representative government give way to a form of administration which is less dilatory, less tolerant, and less compromising. In the crisis of 1932 the people demanded action of the new administration. They were willing to surrender temporarily their historic rights and forget their political philosophy in the interests of prompt, recovery. But two years have passed and the process of strengthening the executive continues. Congress has been surrendering its rights and the rights of other branches of the government to the president. We have in the executive the spectacle of an officer making the laws which it is his duty...
These difficulties should be remedied by the prompt purchase of more of the texts required. There seems to be no good reason why the shelves of the house libraries should be further stocked with best sellers or ancient tomes of interest only to the occasional antiquarian while fundamental text-books are inadequate in number. Nor does the existence of more complete libraries like Boylston and Fogg furnish any excuse for compelling the inquiring student to wallow through several blocks of New England weather to cover his weekly reading assignments...
...were disappointed. The editors were represented by lawyers. Scolded Justice Waste: "It does not look like due diligence was exercised to determine whether the information on the article was true. I am pestered by telephone calls on all important cases. A word to the Chief Justice would have brought prompt information that no decision had been reached." Put in Associate Justice Preston: "It would appear you were looking for a scoop and were afraid to investigate because you might find out it was incorrect. . . . You don't tell us where you got this information. It looks...
Even Paris agreed that it was a great Hitler speech. Orator Hitler played adroitly on the theme that revolution had been expected to break out in Germany upon the death of Hindenburg and that he had averted this catastrophe by prompt assumption of the President's powers...
...they were embarked on a new crusade, brandishing a new weapon-the boycott. That they were in earnest impressed even hardboiled Variety, which for once put aside its racy style to tell about the "Legion of Decency" in a straightforward article headlined: "CATHOLICS WOULD ENLIST ALL FAITHS-Need for Prompt Action to Avert Drastic Penalties Upon Picture Industry Urged in East-Real Danger...