Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill's chief provisions were simple and direct: The U. S. Government would supply all the cash necessary for farmers to pay off their mortgages or to buy back their farms from which they have been dispossessed. In return the Government would take from the farmers new mortgages bearing 1½% interest amortized over 47 years. These new mortgages would be used as security for a Federal bond issue bearing 1½% interest. The bonds would be offered to the public but since the public would probably not buy them, the Federal Reserve would be ordered to take them...
...with $4,880,000,000 to allot as he saw fit. Secretary Ickes got the spending of only $440,000,000 of that amount, of which $100,000,000 was for housing. Administrator Hopkins spent $933,000,000 on doles before he succeeded in making the states take over direct relief. By June 30 he will have spent some $1,495,000,000 additional on Works Progress Administration, the fancy name for work relief. Also, a new relief man had appeared in the person of Rexford Tugwell who got $246,390,000 for rural resettlement...
...heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct the projected picture. Rather than have the film made on contract by an outside organization, he was put on the Resettlement Administration's payroll. By the time Lorentz was ready to begin shooting last September, he had employed a trio of cameramen, all able, all Left-wing in politics...
Died. Hu Han-min, 52, most potent champion of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Canton, China. Friend and disciple of the late great Sun Yatsen, he helped draft China's constitution, codified its basic laws, opposed Chiang Kai-shek's direct methods. Arrested and forced into exile, he returned to China last February on Chiang's invitation...
...system of sections for all men has been a part of the course organization of English 1 and English 2. However, these sections include men of such varying ability that it is impossible for the section men to direct the discussion to specific problems of any one group. In the effort to include material that will be of some benefit to everyone the sections have become either a rehash of lectures, as in English 2, or vague attempts to clarify the reading to suit everyone's needs. This procedure, necessitated by the wide distribution of marks of the men, defeats...