Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct and straightforward attacks against "legal(?) czars" of the past, for the betterment of the millions in the U. S. A. and abroad, puts into total eclipse such former idols as our ex-Governor. The history of this era, when written, will record the name of Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin in bold relief...
...those who hoped for direct cash profits were no happier than the little group of men to whom silver is almost a religion, those who have fought to raise its price, to see the day when silver once more became money. To Senator Pittman of Nevada, who wangled through the London agreement, it was a delightful Christmas present. In the first flush of joy he predicted that it would: 1) stabilize the world price of silver at 64 1/2 ? 2) increase buying power in the U. S. 50%; 3) increase the exchange value of the moneys of China, India, Mexico...
...half of that converted into dollars and put in circulation will amount to less than $40,000,000. That much new money would be less than half the amount added to circulation in the week before Christmas, all in the ordinary course of Federal Reserve's operations. So direct inflationary effect would be trifling compared to other measures now afoot...
...Armour had then loudly (and quite truthfully) denied that his packing company owned a share in any stockyard. Then a small packer had challenged the legality of a yardage charge of 12? a head on hogs, 25? a head on cattle, which the stockyards collected even on railroad shipments direct to the packers, and had won his point. Mr. Prince thought he saw the day when the railroads would pass the charge to him or at least force a reduction. And Mr. Prince was sure he had seen the shrewd hand of Armour behind the little packer's action...
...tutors so dedicated to the success of the house plain that they will sacrifice their new privilege, but the record of the tutors' tables, of their healthy life and stubborn, imposed death, indicates that such tutors are in the minority. The graduate students, whose interest is less direct, cannot be expected to eschew beer at meals in the tutorial cause; the bulk of undergraduates over twenty-one will tend to follow their example. In this manner beer will divide the houses, and in so dividing them it will assume a vast and obvious importance to which its own merit would...