Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day his corps of agents?Secretaries Mills, Stimson, Hyde, Postmaster General Brown, Detective Secretary Richey and Political Secretary Newton? began returning from Chicago to tell him how well his wishes had been executed, receive his thanks. "A prompt and effective job," said the President. When the Vice President arrived at the White House, the President led him out to the posing ground for the first pictures of the renewed Hoover-Curtis ticket...
Public Economy: ". . . Prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure. . . . The party will continue to uphold the gold standard. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in principle and dishonest in results. An ailing body cannot be cured by quack remedies...
Before dawn General Moreno. Col. Bravo and the rest of the Army officers had called upon their good friend Don Carlos Davila to assume the Presidency of a "purely civilian junta" which he prompt...
...Fear and alarm prevail because of events in Washington which have greatly disturbed the public mind. . . . Nothing is more necessary than balancing the Budget. Nothing will put more heart into the country than prompt and courageous and united action. . . . The details plainly require: 1) prompt enactment of a revenue bill ... to distribute the burdens equitably; 2) a drastic program of economy . . . $230,000,000 below the executive budget...
...Loud, prompt, irate were the objections of Italy's Grandi and Germany's von Bülow. They argued that "in fairness" Bulgaria must be rescued too; they complained that, since most of the $40,000,000 would have to be loaned by France, this lending would be "political" and would extend French power down the Danube; finally they called "unworkable and impractical" the proposed inter-Danubian tariff slash...