Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bushels. Some of the hedgers feared that their joy might be the cause of the very disaster they dreaded. They well knew that Mr. Roosevelt, committed to raising prices and redistributing wealth, rides two horses. Should prices slump too far. he might be virtually forced to turn to direct inflation. Last week the Right or sound-money horse of his team bounded so far ahead when spurred by the bond news that the dollar was yanked from 66 to 70? on foreign exchange. Left Horse Whipped. As soon as the sound-money horse got ahead, the President felt it wise...
Allistair Cook, a graduate of Cambridge University, and at present studying at Harvard under the Common-wealth Fellowship, will direct the production. Mr. Cook directed the world premiere of Huxley's "World of Light," which was produced in Cambridge...
What would constitute an act of aggression? The actual mobilization of armed forces or the setting up of a new army and navy by Germany in direct violation of her treaty pledge which required her to disarm...
...time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail, in type however large, can only distract us from the whole; we cannot at one time court irrelevance and desire a conclusion. The direct man is not concerned with looking through the keyhole, but with opening the door. POLLUX...
...been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because men who sort letters and deliver mail are chosen by examination, when those who direct their activity are selected, simply and openly, by politicians? No really successful civil service, such as the British or the Swiss, has developed with this poison at its roots, and ours cannot escape the rule. Talk of driving the moneychangers out of the temple may be Biblical...