Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold in the late boom. It was his first public pronouncement since he became adviser to the President. When he had done, the 3,000 listened just as eagerly to Professor Kemmerer who has taken the place of leader of the opposition theory, whose point was not a direct attack upon the Warren doctrine but that dollar tinkering brought danger of uncontrolled inflation, for there is no way of controlling public psychology once it goes inflation...
...parliamentary government does not have the power and sanction to enforce this ban to conclusion. The conservative need not fear Mr. Roosevelt for they can check him at the final point: for the same reason the real radicals are unable to feel that his experiment can be a direct, or ultimately a successful...
Speaking before the National Conference on Students in Politics, Secretary Wallace did not neglect the old temptation to shake his finger at the colleges, at those who direct them, and at those who are studying in them. In succumbing to this temptation, Mr. Wallace has not avoided its usual corollary of general and unfocused abuse. The straw men of football overemphasis and college dances are laboriously set up, and laboriously knocked down again. But in the conclusion of his address, Mr. Wallace showed that he has gone a stage beyond; he believes that the youth of America is instinctively persuaded...
...Christmas address to his College of Cardinals, His Holiness Pope Pius XI hurled from Vatican City a potent reaffirmation of his 1931 Encyclical against sterilization: "That pernicious practice must be condemned. . . . Men are begotten not for earth and time but for heaven and eternity. . . . Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . [to] tamper with the integrity of the body, either for reasons of eugenics or for any other reason...
...flung themselves into an embrace. Shining-faced little boys and girls were treated by beaming shopkeepers to delicious bean-sugar cakes. Meanwhile-the Sword! A precious blade, short and strong, forged by the Imperial Swordsmith, Sadakatsu Gassan, it was presented to the newborn Crown Prince, not by his father direct-for the Emperor of Japan acts always through intermediaries-but by proud old Admiral Kantaro Suzuki as the Emperor's Messenger. During the sword ceremony the Imperial obstetricians could hardly wait. Directly afterward they pounced reverently on the babe, meticulously ascertained that he was 50 centimetres long (about...