Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would probably be cheaper than the dole-and-relief work but it has two main disadvantages: a) economically it might tend to throw some workers in private enterprise out of their jobs; b) politically it would arouse a storm of conservative opposition from manufacturers who feel the pinch of direct government competition...
Sophomores who enter the Business competition will be in a particular advantageous position due to the fact that there are now only a few members of the Class of 1937 on the Board. As a result of this, Sophomores who are taken on will be in direct line for the Business managership at the end of next year...
...with M. & St. L. Let the corpse of M. & St. L. be cut into seven pieces, Mr. Jones suggested, each of the connecting carriers buying one piece. RFC would, if necessary, prefer to lend them the purchase price rather than try to resuscitate M. & St. L. itself with cash direct. The seven big lines-Great Northern, Illinois Central, Rock Island, Wabash, Milwaukee, Chicago & North Western and Burlington-seemed to like the Jones "thought." Adjourning to Chicago, they ordered a thorough technical investigation. RFC has a $340,000,000 stake in the U. S. railroads as a whole...
...simple, direct statements of policy the President can dispel the doubts and fears which paralyze business and prevent recovery. By promising to balance the budget in the near future, by assuring industry that the government will not tolerate attempts at domination by labor, by pledging non-partisan distribution of federal funds, and the maintenance of national credit, he can aid in breaking the present dam which is keeping billions of dollars from normal investment. Retracting his oft-repeated thrusts at the banking profession he can bring about that salutary cooperation between government and finance which has been...
...fodder and armies with their generals. Will it always be thus? Alas, yes, until men begin to ask why they are fighting and refuse to give way to an indefinite emotional sentiment instilled in them by men who sit in easy chairs miles behind the line of action and direct the merciless and senseless slaughter...