Word: directness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover owes to the country a direct, definite and positive declaration on this subject. . . . Mr. Shattuck's denial by no means disposes of the matter. . . . A great many people will accept the evidence as proving that the President has been participating in the secret conspiracy against the interests of his own countrymen. . . . If Governor Smith had been elected President last year and had such references to him as President been disclosed . . . impeachment proceedings would have been discussed in the House of Representatives before...
...Shelif" is a pure-blooded Arabian three-year-old stallion registered No. 591 A. H. C. descendant of the Homer Davenport Importation direct from the desert...
...prime G. O. Policy: no government competition against private business. Last week's rumor: private grain commission men in Chicago and Minneapolis were fighting for their economic lives against the Farmers' National Grain Corp. created and largely financed by the Federal Farm Board as a direct cooperative sales agency for grain growers. Last week's development: the Senate Lobby Committee summoned Julius Howland Barnes to tell what, if anything, he knew of a secret widespread movement among private grain commission men to "restrain the Federal Farm Board," to undermine its attempts to establish a quasi-official enterprise...
...industry, definitely announced a price raise, effective Jan. 1, from $55 to $60. The next U. S. move was a meeting of the representatives of more than 300 U. S. and Canadian newspapers called early last week in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania. Three basic suggestions emerged. The most direct was that legal action be used against the Canadian pulpsters...
...undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...