Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alistair Cooke, an Englishman who has had a great amount of experience as director and critic, will direct the production...
...middlewestern farm revolt; some farmers are willing to sell at the current price level, and are being restrained from doing so only by the most inflammatory and militant devisements of their fellows. The gospel preached by the pay leaders of the movement, I am aware, is in direct opposition to this. Their argument runs that the NRA is intolerable, because it is running agriculture into the ground and making it impossible for any farmer to retain his solvency, but if this were really the case, the strikers would not need any guns for domestic use--they would train their artillery...
...proceeds of processing taxes) to wheat, cotton, tobacco, hogs. Loans of 10? a lb. are planned for cotton farmers agreeing to crop reduction. In addition, for producers of rice, fruit, peanuts and milk, AAA arranged marketing agreements which were calculated to boost prices. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was authorized to direct a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program to ease the burden of farm mortgagees through Farm Credit Administration. And during the month, FCA announced that its loans for crop production and harvesting had passed the $200,000,000 mark, of which $50,000,000 had been repaid. This machinery, taxed...
...last month at Havre de Grace, Sportsman Whitney welcomed the challenge. He stipulated, however, that Winooka should first prove himself "against one or more of our first-class Eastern horses . . in order to show the public his real quality." Manager Naylor was incensed at what he took as a "direct insult to Australian racing." but agreed to enter Winooka at Laurel last week. Meanwhile he continued negotiations over weights and distances for the prospective match with Equipoise. Mr. Whitney consented to race at seven furlongs (seven-eighths of a mile) instead of a mile, and for cash instead...
...short distances only, but it is hoped that the sound may be deflected by certain strata in the high atmosphere and thus by following a series of taugents to the globe, reach the south polar region. If the expedition succeeds in picking up these signals it is possible that direct communication by voice may be established for a short period each day. For the present, aerial broadcasts will be sent to Buenos and relayed to New York...