Word: prompted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Secretary of Labor, the Senator-elect from Pennsylvania was delayed that length of time at the Capitol while North Dakota's Senator Nye challenged his eligibility. The charge: more than $600,000 was spent to elect the ticket on which Mr. Davis ran. The Senate's prompt vote (58-0-27) to seat Mr. Davis gave Pennsylvania its full elected Senate representation for the first time in nearly four years. As Senator Davis took his seat, he felt he had achieved a precedent by transferring directly out of the Cabinet into the Senate...
...personal disappointments or bitter memories prompt this attack, but rather four compelling reasons: (1) Cramming is a slipshod, superficial method of review, deadens undergraduate initiative, and places a premium on merely getting by. (2) In view of the fact that only certain types of exam questions can be asked and that these can easily be spotted by experienced tutors, cramming by Hun puts University examiners under the temptation of trapping the trapper and giving tests that will beat Hun and fail everybody. (3) Shallow tutoring is foreign to the purpose of all worth-while study, encourages habits of mental laziness...
Failure of Caldwell & Co. would have been a blow to all financial circles, a calamity in the South. Bankers were unanimous in commending the Nashville Clearing House members for their prompt work...
...Navy? Because the admirals and experts of the General Board are predominantly Big-Navy men, observers last week scrutinized with interest the Board's astonishingly prompt recommendation. Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, heavy and stooped new head of the Board, had testified before the Senate committee on ratification: "We do not get parity with Great Britain. . . . We should have maintained the ratio of vessels [with Japan]. ... I do not believe in any 6-in.-gun cruisers." Admiral Bristol is a seadog trained to do diplomatic tricks. Many a time has he maintained U. S. relations with foreign statesmen...
...Case. A prompt verdict that Vice President Gray had shot his superior, then himself, was returned. The road and the two families (both were married, Byers leaves five children, Gray none) stifled further details. And thus was culminated a long, bitter rivalry...