Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community who will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the Judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution. I do not want to see any direct assault upon the courts, nor do I want to see any indirect assaults upon the courts...
...asserting that Robert Wadlow exceeds all giants in Medical History, Dr. Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...
...showed a $334,000 profit last year, comparing with $428,000 the year before. What the deal last week meant was that Harvey Couch's ideas on co-operation would be applied to freight operations, especially since the two roads together would have the most direct route between New Orleans and Kansas City by way of Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Texarkana and Joplin...
Possibly, Bullitt's address was a direct hint that President Roosevelt plans intervention in foreign conflicts. More likely, however, it is, at best, merely an indication that the United States and the Roosevelt administration approve, but will not necessarily act in the France-British campaign was a formal statement that American sympathizes for an end to the armament race. That the address are with European democracies in general cannot well be doubted in view of the wording of the speech. Stating that the people of America are "not indifferent to" the plight of those nations who are striving to maintain...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Saturday clearly indicated that the United States will no longer float about in a non-existent sea of neutrality, cringing at every warlike move, and yapping whenever its long commercial toes are tread upon. The new neutrality proposal is so positive and direct in its method that it practically bares its fangs and curls its lips to maintain peace in face of a foreign war, In the plain words of its author, Senator Pittman, the bill does "not attempt to construe, determine, or deal with the controversial and mythical question of so-called neutrality...