Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Wallace took an opposite view. He wanted to sidestep the law of 1875, pay cotton planters $100,000,000, wheat growers almost as much as a direct means of upping agricultural purchasing power. He feared a rural revolt against all future crop reduction plans if farmers did not get quick cash for their cooperation...
...Duce had guessed the right way to handle Chancellor Hitler. The French and British were haughtily told by Berlin's Foreign Office that "this intervention in Austro-German difficulties is inadmissible," but the Italian Government received a discreet, direct pledge that German propaganda to Nazify Austria will be toned down...
Guido Jung, the white-mustached Italian Finance Minister who visited the White House before he went to the Conference, attacked President Roosevelt's ideas of "managed currency" and a "commodity dollar" last week with a fierceness which suggested that he was speaking on direct orders from Il Duce...
When Marie Dressier writes for publication, her words are often more sentimental than spontaneous. The flavor of a character which is attractive because it has remained warm, vulgar, direct, somewhat unsophisticated but far from unwise is conveyed better in the extemporaneous Dressier aphorisms that Hollywood especially admires. "I ought to have had a dozen kids and made their clothes and done their washing. . . . I always felt sorry for beautiful women. . . . Keep working always. 'It brings luck. ... A lady may stand on her head in a perfectly decent self-respecting way. . . ." Said Marie Dressier when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered...
...Great Western, bought for his road a 20% inter est in Kansas City Southern. He bought it cheap from the hard-pressed Brothers Van Sweringen. The block of 104,500 shares, said President Joyce at the time, would give Great Western "part of the trackage we need for a direct route from the Northwest to the Gulf of Mexico." As to Kansas City Southern itself he added: "We will make a railroad out of it if we can get co-operation." Last week cash looked better than a railroad to President Joyce.* Great Western sold its minority control...