Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make benefit payments direct to farmers in connection with its soil conservation program. Under provisions of the Soil Conservation Act individual States would administer such Federal funds and make direct disbursements to farmers after next Dec. 31. Last week's bill, passed without a roll call under a suspension of House rules and sent to the Senate, was considered necessary by farm leaders because an insufficient number of States had set up legislative machinery to handle the funds...
...automatic Spanish-built switchboards continued efficiently to serve most of the 53,000 telephone subscribers in Madrid and, despite the horrors of a siege now entering its sixth month, the great majority of these Madrid subscribers have continued to pay their telephone bills. When a big shell makes a direct hit against one of the steel girders, the Telefonica quivers, shudders like a liner smacked by a breaking wave, but this week Madrid citizens were still making rushes for shelter into the building whenever a bombardment started. Elasticity has saved it, although shells bursting in a few individual offices have...
...trusted ministers, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board (TIME, March 29), President Roosevelt declared that prices-at least of certain durable goods-were entirely too high. As a corrective the Government would drop its hitherto basic policy of stimulating heavy industry, direct its spending toward consumer industries...
When finally aroused, ex-King Alfred proceeds from his customary breakfast of brandy direct to the Folies Bergere, where ennui induced by watching the can-can restores him to a stupor. On the advice of the ex-King's doctor, his ex-Chancellor and ex-lady-in-waiting (Mary Nash) hatch a plot to give him a new interest in life. This consists of persuading a chorus girl who momentarily attracts his attention to alter the monotony of his unvarying success with women by not falling in love with him. The plan has the desired effect upon the King...
Producer Le Roy, who had seen him in French pictures and on the stage of the little theatre which Actor Gravet and his wife run in Paris, persuaded him to sign a contract for three pictures by promising to select and direct them all. Having completed the first, afraid of losing his appeal for U. S. audiences by becoming too thoroughly Americanized, Actor Gravet recently returned to Paris, where he maintains an army of 30,000 toy soldiers of which a few members always travel with their owner...