Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week some observers not only warmed to the belief but became outspoken advocates of the proposition that Franklin Roosevelt had adopted an unheralded but consistent policy, that under the very noses of doubters he had already put his policy into effect. They made a blunt assertion...
...renewal of the Automobile Code contrary to the wishes of the A. F. of L. followed by his blunt rebuff of A. F. of L. protests...
...great and exciting moment. President Roosevelt's office was jammed with newshawks. He held up a mimeographed sheet and owlishly informed them that the State Department insisted that "Commissar" be spelled with one "s." Then he ceased jesting, and blurted out the blunt fact: the United States of America had entered diplomatic relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at ten minutes before midnight the previous day. The historic date...
Last week Yaleman Embree retaliated with a blunt statement that no university in the South can claim inclusion in the first twelve. Thereupon he listed his choices for the first twelve in the order of educational excellence: Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Yale, California, Minnesota, Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Princeton, Johns Hopkins. Said he: "More than half of the country's great universities are in the Middle West and Far West. This came about through John D. Rockefeller's building the University of Chicago and maintaining it as a standard for educational institutions. The great South has no such school...
...EYES OF DEATH-John Bentley- Crime Club ($2). Introducing Sophisticate Richard Herrivell Bart, antiquarian, who suavely guides blunt Chief Inspector Barton through the psychological maze left by a brutal, clever murderer...