Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in dire distress again were Columbus, Youngstown, Lima, Cleveland, most of the urban centres. Toledo shut its poverty-stricken schools, sent 40,000 children home, wondered how it would care for 5,913 unemployed persons and their dependents besides. In Cleveland, 60,000 people dependent on direct relief saw little chance of getting it. Starvation, sickness were spectres at the Thanksgiving feast...
...speech had the blunt, threatening, direct, totalitarian touch so typical of the masters of Berchtesgaden and Rome, whom the Foreign Minister has several times visited. He hailed the "new era" that Nazi Germany had brought to Eastern Europe. He gloated over the "collapse of an artificially created Czechoslovakia." He sneered at onetime President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia and resented what he called M. Benes' renewed "propaganda and activities." As for neighbors...
...authority on the Far Eastern situation, Fairbank said that the United States has no way of using direct force to protect its interest. The country has inadequate naval power in the Orient...
...Daladier-Chamberlain combination, in point of direct effect upon Europe and the World, cannot be matched...
Like British-owned India, The Netherlands Indies is divided into territory governed by native rulers in treaty relations with the Dutch, and territory governed directly. The Dutch authorities are not as lenient with the many sultans and princes whom they oversee, however, as the British. They strictly limit the native rulers' allowances and make sure that a part of every little State's income finds its way into education, hygiene, public works. Of the entire population, less than 10,000,000 are States' subjects; the remaining 50,000,000 are ruled direct from Batavia...