Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst acts passed in the History of the United States, ranking only with such recognized monstrosities as the Wagner Labor Hill, the Guffey Coal Act, and the N. R. A. The idea that a President should have the power to bribe districts of non-sympathetic voters with direct cash payments is unbelievable. But to have the effrontery to make these payments for nothing,--nay, for less than nothing, for refraining from doing something productive and constructive for the country--, transports one to the realms of Alice in Hades...
...adjudged to be boys of high character, possessed of attractive personality, gifts of leadership and of promise for future usefulness. ... I wish each award to serve not only as a memorial to my son but to the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes its culture. ... I direct that such beneficiaries shall be confined to those boys who shall be ... the sons of white Christian parents of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom are citizens of the United States and were born in America...
...course the College has no direct authority over the Tutoring Schools. But the repercussions from the students will soon show them that it is to their interest to live up to the scholastic ethics of their customers and of their customers' mentors...
...Congress set its own processing taxes. 2) Has Congress the power to impose processing taxes? Congress, says the Government, has the power to impose any excise tax to raise revenue. Processing taxes, retorts Hoosac Mills, are not imposed for revenue, but to do indirectly what the Government has no direct power to do, namely to regulate production. 3) Is the AAAct a constitutional exercise of Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce? The Government says it is because commerce goes to pot when farmers get no adequate return for their products. Hoosac Mills says it is not because the power...
...contains 15 ''Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque show to a defiance of Washington. "City of Monuments." Muriel Rukeyser is "a Left Winger and a revolutionary," but her poetry contains no direct appeals to the proletariat and her symbols of revolt are imaginative. The world of which she writes is chaotic, bloody, violent, filled with crimes of perversity, such as are suggested by a recollection of Loeb & Leopold: how they removed his glasses and philosophically slit his throat. Man's conquest...