Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latin-American scholarships at Harvard have come within the range of immediate possibility through direct aid from Alumni, the student promotion committee announced today...
General conclusions of the Pressure Groups table was that the only restrictions on the operation of minority lobbies should be the publicizing of their methods, not direct governmental intervention...
Even while the President spoke these cannon-forging words, and while he apostrophized brave, dutiful George Washington later the same day (see p. 14), a very different, far more dramatic message by him was being handed around secretly among his closest advisers for final editing. This was a direct personal message to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, to whom he released it over the State Department's wires at 9 o'clock that Friday evening. Coupled with this message in the President's mind was a momentous order to the U. S. Navy. The President had decided...
...affections had been shifted away from the 2,000,000 Storm Troops to the 55, that the Storm Troops were being relegated back to the gutter whence they had originally sprung. And although Leader Himmler was nominally Leader Roehm's subordinate, actually Heinrich Himmler took his orders direct from Adolf Hitler himself...
...columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun "is a genial philosopher who declines to take himself too seriously." Raymond Clapper...