Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After his first report from Secretary Woodin, President Roosevelt took the first and long anticipated step of his promised "action": He called the new Congress for March 9. Not till nearly midnight when the deliberations of the Treasury conference had been well mulled over, did he take his first direct action on the banking situation. Calmly in his study, with a fresh cigaret carefully placed in ivory holder, he proclaimed - under the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act of 1917-which gave the President power to regulate foreign exchange and prevent hoarding...
...Power for the Secretary to direct Clearing Houses to issue scrip...
...This nation asks for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war. We must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centres...
...promptly dubbed him "world's greatest forger," and before the excitement was over the notorious Elia Volpi and several other over-shrewd dealers found themselves fined, exposed, and once more in possession of carloads of spurious sculpture. Sculptor Dossena remained within the law. He never sold his work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid him about $200 each for works they sold for as much as $100,000. Even these payments were tardy. The hoax was first...
...Although the income available for the Faculty has declined far below that originally estimated for 1932-33, the reductions in the Faculty budget are relatively slight. Salaries of all teaching officers, except those annual appointees whose salaries vary in direct proportion to the amount of work assigned them and are decreased or increased even in normal years in accordance with the work available for them, were not reduced, and the rate of salary paid teaching officers whose salaries are fixed by the work for which they are employed was not reduced. It is fortunate that past economies have made...