Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct as a compass, as decisive and brief as a dictionary definition, and as poised, as gracious and friendly as all well-bred women is Frances Perkins, the woman selected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to represent labor in his official family...
...Unfortunately the Chinese-language press has not, by and large, achieved a high level of development. Subsidy and blackmail are not infrequent features of Chinese journalism. Many of the acts and violence perpetrated against editors have been the direct results of actions difficult for the most enthusiastic advocate of press freedom to condone...
...might have done just what Mr. Aldrich has recommended. I do not know. Up to the time I left the bank I did not think that it was necessary. . . ." Q. What services had Mr. Wiggin rendered for his $100,000 retirement salary? A. "I think I am a direct influence in holding a very large business for the bank." He always had the interest of the bank "very much to the front.'' and partly due to his efforts the Chase's assets tied up in Germany had been reduced from $100,000,000 to less than...
...find himself in a pretty fix if, while he were negotiating a reciprocal trade agreement, the Corporation of Foreign Security Holders were trying to squeeze out of the same country a few more sols, drachmas, pesos. Britain, France and Switzerland, old hands at debt-collecting, long ago learned that direct dunning of public debtors is best left to private creditors. Furthermore, if the U. S. Government were pressing for payment of private debts, the defaulting nations would surely ask such embarrassing questions as: Why did the U. S. Government shelve the gold clause in some...
...ransom had been paid, Richards was arrested. He got himself acquitted in a St. Louis court seven months later, only to find that the Missouri and St. Louis Bar Associations were prepared to run him out of the profession. To save time, the Bar Associations took their case direct to the State Supreme Court. They had evidence indicating that Richards had victimized the frightened Berg family into the promise to pay him the $10,000, and that he had also planned to collect money from the kidnappers. Supreme Court Judge Frank E. Atwood listened to the testimony last May, took...