Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enforcing competent standards of reporting and presenting the products thereof in a direct and forthright manner, regardless of the cobweb strands and musty rituals of the learned professions, TIME deserves wholehearted congratulations...
...direct assault on the House Senator Black pilloried obscure Congressman Patton of Texas, smearing him for days with imputations of having accepted a bribe, although all that the Senator was able to prove was that the Representative had been seen to depart from the hotel room of a utility man carrying a cigar box which one witness did not think contained cigars...
...order to be on the safe side. Thus the figures as reported are not comparable with those of other years in such places. There is also a moderate increase in the number of true cases reported in several areas without any threat of a real epidemic or any direct connection with the Southern epidemic...
...silver boom started at Leadville in the late 1870's By coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities Corp. ("The Whiskey Trust") put itself and its surplus stocks...
Ninety-five years ago there was born to Philadelphia's most prominent dentist, Dr. Stephen Thomas Beale, a son named Joseph Boggs. For blueness of blood the Beales take no backtalk from Biddles or Drexels or Rushes since they were direct descendants of Friend William Penn's Friend Andrew Griscom who reputedly built the first brick house in town. Little Joseph Boggs Beale was also a great-grandnephew of Betsy Ross. Accordingly he was sent to the most reputable school in town, the old Central High School. Almost immediately after graduation he joined the faculty as instructor...