Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This blunt admission, distressingly crude, had its elegant Japanese counterpart in a speech to the Diet last week by Premier Prince Konoye. "I think there are many persons in the Chinese Government who understand Japan, including General Chiang Kai-shek," purred the Premier. "I think it should be the basic keynote of Japan's China policy to make the Chinese race and the Chinese Government return to their original nature as an Oriental people." After explaining that Communism is un-Oriental. while tactfully omitting to mention that the Chinese Communists have now tentatively joined forces with the Chinese Government...
...last week it became obvious that someone had finally had the nerve to tell him of the blunt talk going on in the cloakrooms at the Capitol, of followers who accused him of everything from aspirations for a third term, to a desire to promote Son James for President. He needed no eyeglasses to see for himself how his own majority leader, Senator Joseph T. Robinson (president of the Jefferson Islands Club), was on a rampage over the relief bill (see below). With his three-day propinquity and personality he hoped to close the political gap before...
...Londoners sniffed a more devious trail leading to the sudden appearance of little Vicar Jardine at Monts last week. It is well known that one of the things that has most distressed Queen Mary in recent weeks has been the blunt refusal of grim Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury & Primate of All England, to allow any form of Church of England service at the wedding of her favorite son. It also happens that the bishop to whom Vicar Jardine owes allegiance is the Right Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson. Bishop of Durham, a noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop...
...Blunt even for him was Postmaster General Farley's statement of the case: "Why compromise? The Democratic Senators were elected on the basis of supporting the President's program. It's up to them to back...
...Cleveland Indians baseball club, Charles Bradley was heir to a vast real-estate and Great Lakes shipping fortune. As a banker he early became associated with the Van Sweringens in real-estate, later in rail roads. When the Vans started building Cleveland's Terminals Building in 1927, blunt, outspoken Mr. Bradley was asked to supervise activities. He moved his office from the Union Trust Co. to the site of the excavation. Asked by newshawks what his plans were, Charles Bradley replied: "First thing we'll do is raise hell." The building was completed in record time. Last week...