Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income, on capital stock and on excess profits. These three, the only ones which Alf Landon could possibly reduce if he went to the White House, were not hidden but direct taxes, which he favors...
Untrained, the Government militia made such a mess of trying to use their artillery that finally a sympathetic French reserve officer undertook to direct their fire. The French Ambassador, bold Jean Herbette, meanwhile undertook to take out of Spain a mysterious individual whom the Red guards at the Spanish frontier viewed with so much suspicion that they threatened to open fire. Cried M. Herbette from his Ambassadorial car flying the Tricolor, ''Fire if you dare, Messieurs-upon the French Ambassador!" As the Reds hesitated he dashed to safety in France...
Next day the battle opened in earnest, with General Emilio Mola personally commanding the White forces against Irun. They advanced under withering fire and at the last moment the Communist defenders of Irun broke and ran but not the Anarchists. With their philosophy of "direct action" it seemed to defending Anarchists that the thing to do before giving up Irun was to set torches to this ''Wool Capital of Spain" and burn it to the ground. Newly famed Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti sounded the keynote when he cried ''We are not in the least afraid of ruins...
Concludes Author Tunis bitterly: "We are a bunch of contented college cows. . . . That lamp of learning, tended by the ancient Greeks, blown white and high in the mediaeval universities and handed down to us in a direct line through Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge, has at last produced a group of men whose chief ambitions . . . [are] to vote the Republican ticket, to keep out of the bread line, and to break 100 at golf. . . . Does one need to go to college to have such aspirations...
...only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes so far as to scoff contemptuously at the Spanish Government, friendly though it is to Barcelona, charging that in the Cabinet there are ministers who secretly want Generalissimo Franco to take Madrid because they think that unless he does all Spain...