Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billion-dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after 1929-he is a low-rate, big-production man who has boosted his system's domestic sales to the highest average in the country (1,000 k.w.h. per domestic consumer per year). By business standards...
...This is no time for pussyfooting," declared blunt William M. Jeffers, new president of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. "There are only four or five Western railroads which are not in financial difficulties today, and individual railroads cannot stand alone. Unless revenues can be obtained so the railroads can be made to pay, the answer is perfectly obvious- bankruptcy, complete breakdown of the system, Government operation...
...secret is it that the London Times, stuffiest of all London dailies, not only represents the official opinion of the British Government but prepares many of its leading editorials with Government and Palace assistance. Seldom is that fact as frankly admitted as it was last week. Following the blunt announcement of Nazi Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at Stuttgart fortnight ago, interpreted abroad to mean that the German Government would soon ask diplomatic immunity for three "cultural attaches" to take the place of the three newspaper men recently ousted from Britain as Nazi agents (TIME...
...know, Mr. President, that there are some members of your Cabinet who do not frankly cooperate with you. I am one of them," said the blunt Indian-blooded General. Fork poised in the air, Cárdenas replied: "I appreciate your frankness, General Cedillo, and in spite of our differences, I continue to count on your help...
...Perfumery and Toileting. He posted a letter to the Times saying, "Nail painting originated in China 3,000 years ago and has been indulged in ever since by Cleopatra and other fine ladies." Harold A. Moody, founder & president of the League of Colored Peoples entered the controversy with the blunt opinion that nail painting was originated by the lighter races to satisfy their natural longing for "color" in their make...