Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employment representatives, offering a variety of work opportunities, are visiting this office each week Men with no definite positions in view for next year are especially urged to make prompt application in order that they may avail themselves of the widest range of choices...
...shares Electric Power & Light Corp.; 400 shares National Power & Light Co. Judiciary Committee Chairman Norris wrote Nominee Thacher: "In the judgment of the committee you ought to divest yourself of the securities mentioned." Mr. Thacher sold them all at the market, so informed Chairman Norris, who replied: "Your prompt compliance with the wishes of the committee will be highly satisfactory." Promptly, unanimously the Judiciary Committee approved the Thacher appointment, advised the Senate to confirm him as Solicitor General...
Annoyance only gives way to down-right exasperation when the whole sad story of mismanagement at last is brought to light. It was had enough to and two weeks ago that the Comptroller had at his disposal information, the prompt release of which after the appearance of the first newspaper story would have so vindicated Harvard's reputation as to obviate all further discussion. But yesterday at a hearing before the Rules Committee of the Massachusetts legislature the treasurer of the Corporation made known the strange news that in March 1928 the Comptroller was in a position to establish...
...their failure to issue prompt and accurate information of the affair early in January one may conceivably expense the authorities on the ground that they have had woefully little practice in a proper handling of the press. But it is far more difficult to explain away both their lack of routine courtesy and their egregious want of intelligent self-interest in falling to reply to the proposal of the State Minimum Wage Board when the matter was so near settlement two years...
...Great Stride of kicking all moneyed peasants off their farms is expected to be completed by 1931. "For without prompt and vigorous acts," wrote Stalin, "all our talk about liquidation of kulakism as a class will be just foolish talk...