Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dimitroff to foment World Revolution, while his right assists the Soviet diplomacy of Litvinoff to maintain nominally friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone knows that Stalin and Trotsky profess to be each other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest...
...major accomplishments of his career, including Nebraska's unicameral system which he believes caps it, George Norris had to wait until after he was 70. Not until 1932 when he had been nearly 20 years in the Senate did events begin to run in his direction. In 1932 he won Congressional approval of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, ending "lame duck" sessions of Congress. Then he secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia bill restricting the powers of courts to grant injunctions in labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers...
...much more liberal allotment of funds for direct expenditures in the control of the venereal diseases." Under Josephine Roche, sociologically-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who opened last week's Conference, Dr. Parran has $10,000,000 to carry out the 1937 campaign. Brimming with zest, the conferees last week urged Dr. Parran to ask Congress for another...
...direct charge is Assistant Surgeon General Raymond Aloysius Vonderlehr, 39, a determined administrator. Speaking in a tight-voiced monotone, Dr. Vonderlehr last week advised the 6.000.000 victims of syphilis, the 12,000,000 victims of gonorrhea and the unestimated victims of soft chancre (caused by Streptobacillus ulceris mollis) in the U. S.* that they may reasonably expect the following means of relief during 1937: "1) The appointment of a full-time venereal disease control officer in every State department of health...
...more general use of dark-field microscopic examination, either direct or delayed, in the diagnosis of early syphilis...