Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppressed. New measures must be adopted by Congress since the existing statutes only cover the actual icommission of overt acts, and fail to cover the insidious attacks upon the Government by the prevalent Red agitations. The Government has to provide for its own defeanse, and this propaganda is a direct attck on the Government, it has the right and is justified in defending itself. Freedom of speech does ot extend to attacks upon law and order, and thus any incitement to violence, by means of propaganda, must be suppresed...
...Monday, March 29, "The Midnight. Whirl" will come to the Schubert direct from the roof of the Century Theatre in New York. In spite of the suggestion in the title, the entertainment will run on the usual afternoon and evening schedule...
Part of this failure can be explained through Mr. Sabatini's mode of presentation. He has chosen the most difficult of all modes--the direct. Torquemada speaks for Torquemada, fully and at length. The great men hold the center of the stage. Scott, Hugo, Dumas, all of the legion who have succeeded in popularizing history avoided this method as the devil. Minor figures, though principal characters in the story held the public eye, while the major figures in the world's history appeared and disappeared in the background. Yet there is more historical truth, more conviction, more delineation of character...
...most casual reading of the new Constitution will reveal the fact that it makes provision for many revolutionary changes. It provides for the direct election of the nation's chief executive. It establishes ministerial responsibility. And it embodies many things which have been much discussed in the United States; for example, the initiative and referendum, the recall, woman suffrage, proportionate representation, single tax, public ownership of railroads...
...considerable number of prominent former debaters have been secured as coaches. C. E. Frazer '18 will direct the general policy and Professor H. B. Huntington '97 of Brown, Judge A. P. Stone '92, Professor H. N. Davis, A. M., '03, Sidney Curtis '05, and W. H. Foster '06 will act as advisors...