Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...momentous sentence?because it appeared in direct quotation in every newspaper of the country on the following morning. It was the first time in years that the public has been permitted to learn the actual words of a President?other than such as have appeared in public speeches, official messages and unconfirmed rumors?since the practice of holding official press conferences was begun by President Wilson...
...particular country with and to the policies of the existing central bank of that country. "The new bank would be in no sense a 'super bank' to exercise a dominating influence over existing institutions. . . . "It would supplement rather than duplicate existing institutions and would assist rather than direct. "As to the management, the bank, if organized, must be non-political and must be international-free from any dominating financial relationships. Upon the directorate should sit only men of experience and international repute...
...book proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal...
Captain Van Auken is attached to the Bureau of Navigation in Washington, and as Chief of the Training Section is in direct charge of the various units in the many colleges of the country. In his talk today he will make some important announcements in regard to the summer cruise, and will discuss the situation in the units in other institutions...
...analyzing the growth of population to date with reference to national ancestries and thus, in effect, fixing the proportion each foreign country contributed to U.S. "native stock" and the development of that stock since. To the U S were then to be admitted 150,000 immigrants annually, in direct proportion to the contributions their native countries have made to the whole U. S. population, past and present, Negroes excluded, new policy was to go into effect by Presidential proclamation July...