Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England Council. Its president, Henry D. Sharpe, wrote to Franklin Roosevelt concerning a questionnaire sent out on inflation: "Never in the history of this Council have we received so prompt or so unanimous an expression of opinion. . . ." Of 210 replies, 209 were against Inflation. Economists. Twelve professors of finance in Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Ohio State University and University of Illinois is sued a manifesto: "It is now assumed in Washington that the price of gold and the prices of other commodities move automatically in the same direction. . . . It is a sobering thought...
...urged that the subject be pigeonholed in view of the seething Cuban situation. It might lead to more bloodshed. His request leaked out and a Washington newspaper reported that ''Wall Street influences" were trying to keep the Senators from their work. Mr. Aldrich, visibly agitated, demanded a prompt and thoroughgoing investigation of all Chase's Cuban deals, to clear the air. He demanded so insistently that Senator Fletcher banged the table with his fist: "We will do as we please about it, Mr. Aldrich." Flustered Mr. Aldrich murmured: "I'm sure you will...
...certain to make blunders. I rely on you newspapermen to check us. . . . There is no kindness in flattering a wrong cause. I want your criticism as well as your support. It is the best kind of backing and the only request I make is that you be prompt about it. " With almost embarrassing promptness, Editor Pew's speech was followed by an uproar in Washington which answered the President's question. Regular attendants at General Johnson's NRA press conferences have been the editors of two of Washington's "confidential news letters" Willard Monroe Kiplinger whose...
When Lawyer Benjamin H. Ludlow, secretary of the Orchestra Association, at last mounted an auctioneer's stand draped with a red sale-today flag, the bidding was prompt and generous. Debutantes went from table to table collecting written pledges. The players whose music was being auctioned lost some of their selfesteem, but the $17,000 which was raised restored half their last pay cut, gave 600 impoverished music students free tickets for the season...
Another question: "Have you ever sent messages to other planets?'' Prompt answer: "I've sent lots of messages that never got anywhere. If dispatches ever reach other planets the achievement will depend on overcoming absorption in the earth's atmosphere, and last but not least on whether the planets are inhabited. They might be in the Stone Age and not be ready to receive our communications. We know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter...