Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insignificant was the actual issue beside the major intra-Administration battle it had provoked. At Secretary Ickes' throat were not merely Senators Tydings and Pat Harrison, patron of T. Webber Wilson, but the entire Senate afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field. He was priming to let fly another blast at Senator Tydings when he received a call from the White House. He emerged...
With such blunt negations, Justina Hamilton Hill, who for many years has studied the values of antiseptics submitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital, answered the public query of what antiseptic is best to use. Miss Hill's full analysis appeared in last week's American Medical Association Journal. Quieting suspicions of mercurochrome's usefulness, she declared that a 2% tincture of mercurochrome stops the growth of germs on the human skin better than a 7% tincture of iodine...
...embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last week gave a blunt "no." Said Probate Judge DeBoice...
...that's architecture," said blunt Richard Upjohn, "then I'm an architect...
...year-old President Jack Frye flared up with a blunt statement squarely laying blame for the crash not on TWA but on the Department of Commerce. Said he: "The real cause of the accident was that Pilot Bolton attempted to come down through a ceiling reported by the Bureau of Air Commerce observer at Kirksville as 7,000 ft. ... What he actually found was practically a zero-zero condition. . . . The accident occurred . . . solely because the favorable landing conditions reported by the observer at Kirksville did not exist...