Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then dumped in the street and the parts sold to dealers who specialize in repairing stripped cars. Chicago strongly suspects that some Chrysler dealers eke out their incomes by buying spare parts cheaper than they can be got from the factory, even suspects some dealers of being in direct cahoots with gangs...
...months the aviation industry has wondered who would be given charge of aeronautics in the Department of Commerce. Last week President Roosevelt divided the job among live men headed by Ewing Y. Mitchell of Springfield, Mo. as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. (He will probably also direct the Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection, the Coast & Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Bureau, possibly the U. S. Shipping Board.) Eugene L. Vidd, whose beauteous, dark-haired wife is daughter of Oklahoma's Senator "Blind Tom Gore, was appointed director of air regulation; Carroll J. Cone of Arkansas was appointed director...
...currency inflation. It had enacted a farm price-fixing bill that made earlier efforts at agricultural relief look puny and insignificant. It had arranged for a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program for farm, mortgages, $2,000,000,000 for home mortgages. Half a billion dollars was voted for direct unemployment relief. The Civilian Conservation Corps was created to put 275,000 idle young men to work in the woods. All these measures were desperate defenses, bulwarks against the immediate tidal wave of economic demoralization...
Followed four hectic days of lobbying with France in a repulsing mood and Britain lukewarm to "The Governor." In a spat direct Candidate Bonnet said to Candidate Cox: "With Washington committed to devaluation we cannot have an American as monetary chairman...
...himself is forgotten. The State has become the Supreme end, and to its greater glory men have become mere instruments. The dictator is the embodyment of the deified state, and any opposition to his will must be stiffed as apostasy against the new religion. This philosophy is the direct antithesis of democratic rule. If we have adopted it, then democracy is no more...