Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance of the Class Agent in the machinery of the Fund cannot be over-emphasized. Letters sent out by him in the interest of the Council have proved to have the most effective and direct appeal of all the various forms of literature thus far employed in solicitation of money front the graduates. R.H. Field '26 was appointed last year agent for the class of 1926. It is interesting to note that his class, which during the period of active solicitation was in its Senior year, is listed in the First Annual Report of the Council as the class having...
...Callaghan's plea last month: "My Dear Postal Patron: "CHRISTMAS TO THE POST-OFFICE is not a mere tempest in a tumbler of water, but it is an ambitious ocean of cards and parcels, a veritable whirlwind, and while riding 'THIS WHIRLWIND,' we must 'DIRECT THE STORM.' "WILL YOU BE OUR RAINBOW ? By shopping early and mailing early, scatter our usual seven day storm over a twelve day whirlwind. . . . Let's humanize Christmas." (Signed) W. J. O'CALLAGHAN Postmaster Said critics: "Hail to Dr. O'Callaghan-advertiser, humanizer-a scholar† among...
Thus with clear, direct inclusiveness runs the central clause of a new treaty between the U. S. and Panama. Portions of the treaty leaked out (TIME, Aug. 9); but only last week was the full text released at Washington...
...quite genteel to call the situation baldly to my friend's attention. Here you can help me. If you will print this letter in TIME-anywhere in TIME-he will see it. ... This method of communication would actually be surer, as well as more genteel, than a direct message, for I am by no means as sure that he reads all my letters as that he reads all of TIME. . . . I'm going to be wholly frank with you, in full confidence that you will not take advantage of a fellow's straightforwardness. I intend...
...Fleet (British), First Sea Lord: "As I dined in state with many a guest, last week, at my estate, the Priory, Reigate, England, the roof caught fire. I, the hero of Jutland, watched the firemen until, convinced that they were louts, I climbed up a gutter pipe to direct their efforts. Stoutly, I shouted commands. My wife, the irrepressible daughter of the late Marshall Field (Dry Goods), cried to our guests: 'You see, the boy stands on the burning deck! Lord Beatty can resist everything but the temptation to command...