Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiefly by their votes on wage-hour control, were: A) aggressive friends of labor; B) passive friends of labor; C) borderliners whose fate might be decided by local circumstances; D) aggressive enemies of labor. Obviously this invitation to turn out the rascally Ds suited C.I.O.'s program of direct political action and tied in well with Administration strategy...
Last week the German Government showed its growing irritation at all this by flaring out sharply in a safe direction, against Brazil. Most of the Latin American states have long been as vexed as Rumania at the sharp German practice of buying huge quantities of raw materials on credit or with blocked marks, then selling these goods for cash at dumping prices, often in direct competition with the producing countries. On June 30, the Brazilian Government ordered the Bank of Brazil to cease buying blocked or aski marks, thus forcing Germany to pay in genuine currency for any Brazilian goods...
...second largest lake, Lake Poyang, gives the Japanese a jumping-off place for two drives on Hankow. One route leads down the navigable lake to Nanchang, main Chinese air base which was severely bombed last week, then across country to the vital Canton-Hankow rail-line. A more direct route lies straight up the Yangtze, although this means fighting along a stream well blocked with booms and flanked by mountains pitted with Chinese gun emplacements. An indication that the Japanese will use this route came last week as they requested all foreign vessels, including U. S. and British gunboats...
...cable that the Philippine President was angling for assurances from these high Japanese officials that Japan had no designs on the islands when the Philippines obtain their independence from the U. S. in November 1945, as now scheduled. The U. S. Philippine Ordinance expressly forbids the Filipinos any direct participation in foreign affairs until 1945 and, as he left Tokyo for Manila late last week. President Quezon vehemently denied that he had been engaged in any "security" mission. Nevertheless, the Japanese Foreign Office frankly admitted that Foreign Minister Ugaki, who is highly touted as his country's next Premier...
Concluded Sheean: "The aristocrats. Jews, liberals and intellectuals, without much direct knowledge of the working class, tend to believe that the Viennese workers are anti-Nazi, but can never produce a shred of objective evidence to that effect. ... It is my impression that the Nazi control over Viennese workers is now already complete, and that any anti-Nazi hope, based on a supposed dissatisfaction of the proletarians, is vain and futile...