Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 75,000 or 100,000 men to work by Aug. 1, President Roosevelt predicted that 90% to 95% of the unemployed would have been given relief jobs by Nov. 1, but asked not to be held too closely to his estimate. Meantime he allotted $95,000,000 for direct relief in August...
Cheer on cheer greeted the U. S. Communist Party's apostles of direct action, Party Secretary Earl Browder and the No. 2 U. S. Red, Sam Darcy, who raised the Red flag last year in San Francisco's general strike...
...Dictator, normally harsh, direct and plain, deliberately engaged with President Litvinoff in an exchange of views on the Ethiopian issue so vague, involved and fuzzy that Geneva minions could not figure out whether Il Duce meant that Italians would appear in the Council this week...
...power of eminent domain for any "projects which benefit the health, the morals, and the general welfare of the people." In Washington, PWAdministrator Ickes was undecided about taking the case to the Supreme Court. But he proposed to push his program as best he could by direct purchase, by getting states & cities to condemn desired land. TVA. Famed has grown Federal District Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama for his rulings against the New Deal. Last winter, while expressly avoiding an opinion on TVA's constitutionality, he declared its chief activity of power-selling illegal, forbade...
...Producer Sheehan kept his fat block of Fox stock, got something like $360,000 for his contract which had 14 months to run. In the new regime at Fox-henceforth to be called Twentieth Century-Fox-Producer Zanuck will have Producer Sheehan's old job as Production Chief, direct studio operations under the nominal control of President Kent...