Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prompt to act was Kentucky's Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Preoccupied with Rearmament, he last week had another amendment to the present CCC act expiring June 1940, providing that in CCC "not less than two nor more than five hours a week be devoted to military training...
Such phrases, released by Dr. Bailey to gauge public reaction to his translation-on which he has labored for 35 years-worked like a charm. They brought prompt denunciations. Said Chicago's Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart: "A fake translation, destroying the fragrance and beauty of the Bible." Dr. John Scott, retired Northwestern Greek scholar: "A parody." Dr. William Andrew Irwin, Chicago Old Testament professor: "There is no need to vulgarize the Bible...
Bearded, scholarly Dr. Fernando de los Rios, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., no friend to clericalism in Spain, invited a number of U. S. Catholics to visit Loyalist Spain, see for themselves that there is today no religious persecution. Ambassador de los Rios received a prompt reply from one of the invitees, blunt, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore. Calling the Ambassador a "common, ordinary liar," the Archbishop said...
Properly, such human documents should be reviewed by a psychiatrist. No one else could satisfy the reader's main curiosity, namely, what motives of exhibitionism, just grievance or resentment against a male-dominated world prompt the writings of such a book. Madeleine Boyd does a thorough job in messing up the portrait of the elegant husband. But she herself does not come through looking as though she were dressed for church...
Fortnight ago the U. S. Export-Import Bank granted China $25,000,000 worth of credit for the purchase of American agricultural implements and machinery. Prompt use of this credit was made last week when China purchased 1,000 trucks from Chrysler and General Motors which could be used to carry Russian supplies over her new motor road from Siberia...