Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morals, and welfare of the people. . . . The exploitation of a class of workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well-being but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community. What these workers lose in wages the taxpayers are called upon to pay. The bare cost of living must...
...Manhattan, Director George Cukor described the kind of girl he was looking for to play Scarlett O'Hara in the cinema version of Gone With The Wind which he will direct for Selznick International. "The girl I select," said he, "must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless." Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins...
...take place before local organizations in Cambridge and Boston should stir up outside interest. Further than that there are untapped resources in the Houses that would delight to participate in informal debating, and it is to these men, as well as to total outsiders, that the Council should direct its appeal. And to make the revival endure, a salaried coach, preferably from faculty ranks, will have to be called in and made available to the sharks and the dabblers alike. If the Debating Council can nerve itself for radical and far-reaching reforms along these lines, the danger of passing...
...loose is open to the gravest doubts. History certainly shows cases where governmental power, even to the extent of life and death, has failed to check runaway inflation. But whether or not the United States is standing on the brink of a precipice, any control, except for direct monetary efforts, "must mean a personal government of relatively unrestrained power". Backed by the dictation of closely knit labor armies and freed from restraint by a judiciary stripped of its independence, the office of President might be an enviable one in a few years --and one where angels would fear...
Significance of the Social Service Committee's activity which includes, the direction of boys' clubs, athletic teams, and Boy Scouts lies in the fact that it is the only direct and continuous contact of a University department through which the outside can get a good idea of Harvard...