Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (72-to-8) a bill by New York's Wagner providing $300,000,000 for direct relief; sent it to the House...
Only the wealth and family prestige of Baron von Neurath have enabled him as Ambassador at Rome and lately at London to hold his diplomatic post while snubbing or cutting direct visiting German Republicans. Dr. Stresemann, who placed Franco-German relations on friendly terms for the first time since the War, may well have turned in his grave at the appointment of Baron von Neurath as his successor. On the other hand Chancellor von Papen may decide to head the German delegation himself. Paradoxically, the Chancellor is rumored, as a man of business and trade, to have notably friendly relations...
...Manhattan's Greenwich Village at the foot of Fifth Avenue, stood their paintings on the sidewalk and sold 1,700 of them in nine days for over $9,700, plus groceries, dental work, shaves, baby shoes. The dealer took a commission on the Picasso, but the $9,700 went direct from manufacturer to consumer...
Another problem, which is probably less serious, although it has received more attention from the press, is that of the Prohibition plank. The administration is outspoken in its opposition to any form of direct repeal and in its acceptance of the "resubmission" proposal announced by Republican leaders some time ago. As equivocal as anyone could require, such a plank would be most helpful to pre-election party orators, and to all appearances there can be little question but that it will be included. But in the past week, a wave of pro-repeal sentiment has swept the country, staunchly supported...
...great potential danger in large gatherings of men who are bent on selfish goals, schooled in the ways of violence, and very dissatisfied with existent conditions. They are the food of revolution, as Mussolini discovered. The only good result of the affair is that it gives the lie direct to Armistice Day orations which praise indiscriminately the "noble, patriotic self-sacrifice" of the ex-service...