Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles H. Bassett of London, England, where she states among other things: "In our copy of this week's TIME (Aug. 31) p. 19 & 20 have been deleted by the British censor. To ensure that in future we get our TIME intact we are ordering our issue direct from your circulation office." I have for years subscribed to many foreign papers, including TIME, and never have any of them been censored or deleted. Also, it is quite obvious from Mrs. Bassett's own statement, that in England there is no "censor"-since she hopes to get her TIME...
...Harry A. Batten, new Ayer president elected last fortnight. Now 39, President Batten entered the firm as an office boy at 15, worked up through the production and copy departments to a vice-presidency in 1929. He lives in a new $60,000 home in suburban Rosemont, takes direct part in the management of the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind...
Question No. 5: Where do major packers have their packing plants? Answer: Major packers have their plants surrounding the stockyards to which livestock purchased is driven direct for slaughter...
...author of The Gentle Savage is more candid, more skeptical, more modern. Artist Richard Wyndham, depressed by an English January, traveled to the Sudan by air, to the province of Bahr el Ghazal, commonly called "the Bog." His book is memorable for its 48 excellent photographs and for his direct writing about the ways of African whites and native women, about the two handsome models he bought, one for six cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about...
...Harvard delegation will meet at Marlbourough and Fairfield Streets at 6 o'clock. Massachusetts Avenue cars direct from the Square to Marlborough Street are recommended by the Landon Knox Club as being the best means of transportation...