Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of judicial reform is a pressing one and corrective measures are long overdue. The President's proposal therefore should be studied with care. A great deal that he desires is justified and much is to be questioned. The creation of the office of proctor, the direct transfer of cases involving constitutional issues from the court of origin to the Supreme Court, the notification of the Attorney General's office before an injunction is issued, each of these measures is worthy of consideration. The "delicate subject" of old age and its effect on the competent work is also deserving...
...Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. The Lewis group went first, stayed longest. At a press conference the President of the U. S. voiced his extreme displeasure with the president of General Motors. Waiving his usual ban on direct quotation, as he had done in squelching Mr. Lewis, the President struck out, this time not with a mild generality but with blunt specification. Rapped he: "I told them [the conferees] I was not only disappointed in the refusal of Mr. Sloan to come to Wash ington but I regarded...
...further news than you've got. Of course, I think in the interest of peace, there come moments when statements, conversation and headlines are not in order." The words were mild enough but the fact that the President took the unusual step of authorizing them for direct quotation showed that he wished them to sink...
Once inside the $560,000 building, each $14,000 brick became the direct responsibility of amiable Russell John Van Home, 45-year-old Mint employe who had spent 21 years in the San Francisco Assay Office when he was sent to the Fort Knox depository last July and given the title of Chief Clerk in Charge. Chief Clerk Van Home's gold is about as safe as human ingenuity can make it. The gold storage vault is a massive box 40 ft. by 60 ft., with top and sides of 25-in. steel and concrete. It rests on bedrock...
...communal status" of these lands centuries ago, prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors and their land-lordly Church. Today the Mexican peasant who is set down by the Government on a piece of land retains title to it only so long as he and his direct descendants live and continue to work it, after which the land automatically reverts to the "Mexican community...