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Word: prompts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insurance Corp. until January when the R. F. C. foisted him on Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank as its chairman. Said Mr. Farley: "I feel that the party is very fortunate in securing for committee treasurer a man of such outstanding prominence and ability. . . ." Republicans were also prompt to congratulate the Democratic Party, pointing out that as head of a big bank, whose largest stockholder is the U. S. Government, Treasurer Cummings should indeed have unusual ability in raising money. Second card of the new shuffle was another ace. Mr. Farley named Emil Edward Hurja to assist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Democratic Shuffle | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...stirring up a battle against it. The President felt he must get it on the books quickly to start tariff bargaining this summer and reinforce his other recovery measures by a trade revival. Last week Secretaries Hull, Wallace and Roper all appeared before Congressional committees to plead for its prompt passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chessboard | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

Tartly at the British Treasury next day a spokesman for Chancellor Chamberlain spiked the MacDonald plea for prompt stabilization, suggested that the Prime Minister had been talking through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daughter Reject | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...Shall miss the President part of program but heartily approve your prompt cooperation in the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...cases of acute appendicitis died 20 years ago. One out of ten cases of acute appendicitis died last year. The failure of advancing surgery to re duce this mortality rate prompted Dr. Urban Maes, able New Orleans appendectomist. chief of the department of surgery of Louisiana State University Medical Center, to search for explanations. His conclusions he last week presented in the American Journal of Sur gery*: "Categorically speaking, the mortality in appendicitis is not usually the mortality of appendicitis itself; it is usually the mortality of unwise treatment, the mortality of delay, and the mortality of the complications that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sterilization in Michigan | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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