Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paragraph, its direct statements and its implications, so far as I am concerned, is false, malicious, defamatory and damaging...
...given him by the new law, Mr. Hopkins said he intended to use $450,000,000 to taper off CWA gradually and $500,000,000 for direct relief. Congress would like him to use more for CWA but he came out strongly against it, declaring that CWA was an emergency measure, should not be permanent, should be gradually demobilized...
...same disease, caused by Bacterium tularense. He named it tularemia. Periodically thinning out the rabbit population by thousands, tularemia also affects many another small animal. Its germ is carried from animal to animal by deer-flies, ticks, lice, fleas. Man may contract it from insect bites, or by direct contact with an infected animal. It usually begins with a small ulcer at the point of infection, followed by glandular swelling. Tularemia kills only about 4% of its human victims but illness is painful, convalescence slow. Up to 1924 only 15 human cases of tularemia had been reported...
President Conant's first specific proposal for attracting outstanding students to Harvard has emerged with unusual promptness as an accomplished fact. The six "experimental" Freshman scholarships, carrying an initial stipend of $1,000 with the promise of more to come, will have the direct effect of enabling a small number of men of exceptional talents to attend Harvard completely free from financial worries. More important than this, they will serve notice to the country that the College is actively and aggressively interested in attracting the cream of preparatory school graduates. Inaugurated with the proper publicity, an experiment as novel...
...aviation companies; various records introduced by Mr. Farley prove that representatives of the companies met and entered into arrangements whereby they agreed not to bid competitively for the air-mail contracts and by which they divided them among themselves. The contracts were then awarded to these companies in direct violation of the Act of June 8, 1872, which provides that "No contract for carrying the mail shall be made with any person who has entered or proposed to enter into any combination to prevent the making of any bid for carrying the mail," and "if any person so offending...