Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machines, can read them and understand them." 6) "Vigilant economy and inflexible refusal to authorize any economic enterprise not considered vital." Clearly the stringency of this Six Point Cycle means that // Duce will not stop short of so-called "Wartime measures" to ensure the fiscal recovery of Italy and prompt payment of her war debts. Ceaseless and ever potent must be Finance Minister Mosconi's fecund activity. Inspiring to him, last week, was the fact that Italy's germinal grain fields are now sprouting and flourishing with an activity announced to promise bumper crops. So impetuously potent...
...Money. Prompt to champion Nominee Hoover and the Dry-spoken Republican platform was President (Mrs.) Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. "We will show our appreciation," said she. Dr. S. E. Nicholson, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, put it the other way around. He promised that anti-salooners would spend $250,000 in New York State alone to beat Democrat Smith...
...prompt caller was Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, co-author of the late McNary-Haugen bill. He wanted to let bygones be bygones, including the famed equalization fee. Not so Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, the other half of the team. He sulked in his tent...
Yesterday the first real step towards unfillment of Secretary Kellogg's proposed treaty for the renunciation of war was taken when the British House of Lords adopted the resolution "that the proposals for the outlawry of war by the United States should have prompt and favorable consideration." Following France's suggestion that the United States sound out the powers on the question, this recommendation alters the proposal from a forlorn hope to a promising opportunity...
Herein lies the fundamental, the only problem that confronts reformers. The crying need is for new cushions rather than new chapels. However deepseated this evil has become, prompt action may yet recall daily morning worship from the land of the "has beens." Salvation hangs in the balance...