Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson this week flew toward Alaska. He is to look over the route of a proposed 2,338-mile highway from Seattle to Fairbanks, inquire whether the project has sufficient military value to justify expenditure of U. S. money on a road through Canada. By law, this is no direct concern of the Assistant Secretary of War. But Franklin Roosevelt is interested, and Louis Johnson is glad to accommodate his friend at the White House...
...warfare in dead earnest. . . . Six-inch projectiles came over at the rate of at least six a minute. Today's cannonade removed all doubt in the minds of observers as to the accuracy of Soviet artillery. Invariably one or two sighting shots were followed by a series of direct hits. . . . At the foot of Changku-feng Hill a village blazed fiercely. Hundreds of shells had scored direct hits...
Exclaimed Defense Attorney Stryker: "What? Just those three?" Predecessor Dodge, a sandy-haired, bespectacled Democratic wheelhorse whose official inaction was the direct cause of Tom Dewey's appointment as rackets investigator, issued a prompt, pompous denial of the charges. Equally prompt was Hulon Capshaw, an amiable, Tennessee-born Social Registerite who was a Hines heeler while still at Columbia Law School 25 years ago. Magistrate Capshaw was conveniently prepared with a statistical breakdown of his disposition of cases involving the numbers racket...
Last week it was announced that NYA's spending money would be $74,500,000. This sum exceeded last year's birthday present by $24,500,000. And for the first time, Congress had given NYA a direct allotment instead of lumping it with other miscellaneous WPA funds. From these facts, Washington observers concluded that NYA has become a permanent contour on the U. S. relief...
Mediator. No direct descendant of any of the Barons at Runnymede is Lord Runciman. His father was a cabin boy who made himself one of Britain's shipping tycoons. As a businessman, keen Son Runciman added to the vast family fortune and prestige. Before the War, he was an outspoken champion of peace between Britain and Germany, delivered a public rebuke to Lord Roberts for having in a preparedness speech called war between them "inevitable...