Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Hugo La Fayette Black's Lobby Investigating Committee last week launched a direct attack on the organizations whose business it is to attack the New Deal. Witnesses-of-the-week were Fred George Clark, Ohio oilman who leads The Crusaders, and Secretary Earley Vernon Wilcox of the Farmers' Independence Council of America. From Crusader Clark the Senators got the story of his organization, founded to fight Prohibition, continued after Repeal to agitate for Constitutionalism, Sound Money, Balanced Budget, and the defeat of "the forces destroying liberty and individual freedom." From Dr. Wilcox the Senators learned...
...Cornell Professors Leonard Amby Maynard, 49, Clive Maine McCay, 38, and Sydney Arthur Asdell, 38, will direct the research. All are learned, industrious biochemists. None is a doctor of medicine qualified to apply his findings to the physiology of human beings. The trio hope to validate "the theory that the characteristics of youth can be retained . . . by special diets." This they expect to prove by feeding mature rats a great variety of foods...
...Manhattan last week there were more cheers than ever for Toumanova, Baronova, Riabouchinska, Lichine, Massine. High spot of the engagement was to come with the revival of Stravinsky's Les Noces, for which Nijinsky's sister Bronislava has traveled especially from Europe to direct the choreography...
...Negro chauffeur in an ample, well-worn market basket. Every inquiry is answered by letter or in print. Dorothy Dix spends the morning sorting mail, penciling notations on routine queries to be replied to by her devoted chief secretary, Mrs. Ellen Bentley Arthur. Knottier inquiries are answered by dictation direct from the oracle's mouth. A few howlers are preserved for the edification of Miss Dix's friends. One which the childless adviser particularly ikes: "My baby's navel looks downcast. What can I do to naturalize...
Rain fell one day last month in a little Kansas town called Ulysses, in Grant County. A local correspondent for a grain elevator house flashed the word to his Kansas City office. Direct wires carried the news to Chicago and Manhattan, where cables whipped it on to Liverpool and Buenos Aires. It was only a matter of minutes before all the world's wheat speculators knew that at last rain had moistened the dry wheat fields of the U. S. "dust bowl...