Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...
...Secretary. Nor were the Appropriations Committees going to run it. Cooperation, yes-he wanted to get along with Congress. But he wanted them to understand that the Secretary of State, just as much as they, was working for the good of the country. Bridges and Taber, blunt men themselves, departed, impressed...
...Writes His Stuff? From the day Billy's column hit print, many a reader has imagined that he smelled something that was not quite the Rose. The blunt, inevitable question has been: Who writes his stuff for him? Billy swears that he does it himself, "and it takes me from four to six hours a day." Actually, there is little room for doubt that Billy writes the prose that bears his byline. The column talks like Billy, it mawks like Billy, it has all of Billy's change-rattling eloquence and off-the-arm skill with...
Correspondents wondered why Visitor Stassen had not mentioned other hardship cases. Asked the Philadelphia Bulletin's blunt Carl McArdle: "Governor, are you on the Herald Tribune payroll?" No, Stassen grinned, he had just happened to run into Geoffrey Parsons Jr., editor of the Paris edition, who had told him about the Trib's troubles...
...Some measures of the quality of F.D.R.'s earliest advisers is suggested when Roosevelt tagged Wallace "Old Man Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace] tended rather to specialize in the study of corn, and was a dreamy, honest-minded and rather likable sort of fellow. He had a mystical, religious side to him, and, never having been in the real rough and tumble of life...