Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patriotism and the love of country in my heart. I tried to show him that during all the ages the Church of Rome has ordered nothing against civilization, and I almost got him to concede that it would be for the good of the country to have a direct connection with Rome...
...Congress may of course protect the secrecy of telephone messages by making them, when intercepted, inadmissible in evidence in Federal criminal trials, by direct legislation, and thus depart from the common law of evidence. But the courts may not adopt such a policy by attributing an enlarged and unusual meaning to the Fourth Amendment...
...TIME, Sept. 26) came up again, last week, the Council passed a resolution informing the disputants that, while the good offices of the League are still at their disposal, it is the opinion of the Council, after five years of investigation, that the matter should now be settled by direct negotiations between Rumania and Hungary. When informed of this decision by telephone, Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary barked back over the long distance wire, "The League once more has proved its utter impotency...
Only a few hours before the issuance of this jilt direct, the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos had informed reporters that she was on the point of leaving Madrid for Paris to superintend the completion of her trousseau...
...bestowing this degree on Mr. Hughes, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown said: "In your youthful spirit and the direct sincerity of your diplomacy you are another Lindbergh with feet on the ground." *Not to be confused with that other Oklahoma oilman, E. W. Marland, who put up the money for a huge statue of The Pioneer Woman (TIME...