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...deference to orders from above. Last week Caudle was back before a House subcommittee to explain why he dropped a tax case against one Isadore Alford of Nashville in 1950. This time the Congressmen thought they might have a lead to a fourth motive-influence-when they popped a blunt question: Wasn't it true that Lamar had been taken on a duck hunt, and thus influenced, by Alford's attorney...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...
When the University of Houston started out as a four-year institution in 1934, it had 909 students and one big shack on the San Jacinto High School campus. It also had one unusual asset: Vice President Walter W. Kemmerer. A Ph.D. from Columbia, Kemmerer was a blunt go-getter who thought he knew exactly what sort of university Houston should have...
...when President E. E. Oberholtzer retired, everyone at Houston seemed agreed on his successor. Kemmerer was made acting president and later president. His formal inauguration was all set for this month. Then, one morning last fortnight, the board of regents summoned him. He was too blunt, too fast, said the regents. They wanted his resignation...
Humphrey began with a blunt opening sentence: "There is no reason to fear peace." Some U.S. citizens, he said, have been talking as if the curtailing of war production would mean economic disaster. Said he: "There is no reason for a depression unless we fail ourselves to do the things we ought to do, and lack the courage and foresight to do them . . . We cannot preserve our way of life through another long, deep depression, and we must never permit it to occur...