Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Norris of Nebraska was making an impassioned appeal to the Senate in behalf of his Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and elect Presidents and Vice Presidents by direct popular vote. At the climax of his speech he addressed the Chair, extending his hand in a dramatic gesture, denying categorically that such an amendment would favor any political party, would serve any end save the true purposes of democracy. Then he sat down amid a hush...
...Authorize direct Federal Reserve and RFC loans of working capital to industry; already passed by the Senate...
...Germany. Here the documentary proof is lacking, but the Inferential proof is close to inescapable. In 1933 Hitler sued a German journalist for having made the statement that Skoda (and, through Skoda, Schneider-Creusot) had contributed to his campaign expenses. When, however, he was challenged to make a direct denial that this was so, he stormed from the witness stand, cursed the opposing lawyer for a Jew, never specifically answered the question, and was subsequently fined 1,000 marks for contempt of court, as a result. De Wendel and Schneider, according to their immemorial custom, said nothing, and nowhere...
...President, not wanting to lose a second good man, hastily issued an executive order authorizing Assistant Secretary Dickinson to take over Dr. Thorp's job until a successor was named. This was a direct blow to Assistant Director Amory who would ordinarily have become acting director. A further blow followed when Dr. Dickinson removed all power over personnel from Mr. Amory, made himself guardian over one of the richest plum trees in Washington and defied hungry politicians to do their worst...
...Luke Sr. jumped up and seized the gavel at a Democratic State convention, hammered his candidate into the nomination and subsequent election as Governor. The Tennessee Legislature was in his pocket in 1911 when he, aged 31, was elected to the U. S. Senate. The Constitutional Amendment for the direct election of Senators cost him his seat in 1916, but two years later impulsive Luke Lea was piling up an impressive War record in France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina boys. He fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive...