Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Direct Action." To the question-Just what does Henlein want?-the Sudeten Führer last week made answer. To G. Ward Price, friend of Adolf Hitler and correspondent for Viscount Rothermere's pro-German London Daily Mail, Henlein declared: "The northwest end of Czechoslovakia forms a sort of foreign appendix in the body of the German Reich. This appendix cannot be allowed to remain in its present state of high inflammation. . . . If such a dangerous condition is neglected, the inflamed appendix would burst one day and instantly infect all Europe with political peritonitis...
...citizens of Germany or Czechoslovakia. "The result," assured Henlein, "would be a 98% majority for Germany." 3) "The third solution," continued the Führer, "would be simpler still." It is that if Czech repression of the Sudetens continues, their resentment may one day force the German Government by direct action to bring them within the frontiers of the Reich...
...German Minister in Prague, Ernst Eisenlohr, received a telephoned dressing down from Berlin, the Sudeten party leaders went into hurried conference. Soon a party communiqué denied that Henlein had given any such interview. It appeared that for the present Germany is not ready for talk of "direct action," may prefer one of Mr. Henlein's alternative causes...
Last week Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Mr. Cabot studied before he entered Harvard, announced that it had received from him a gift of $647,700 for a research program to investigate the direct methods of harnessing solar power -mechanical, electrical, chemical. Far from being floored by the prospect of such an enterprise, M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton feels that the Institute is well equipped to carry it out. Said he: "Mr. Cabot's generous gift makes it possible for the Institute to begin a great research program in which the combined efforts of scientists...
...begin buying for the holiday season. Instead, he will process most of the 1938 crop himself, and this, he expects, will boost his profits. Fresh citron sells for 5? to 8? a lb.; after processing it brings 20? to 25?; retailers charge 39? to 45?. Mr. Hart will sell direct to West Coast grocers, will distribute nationally through Calavo Growers of California, cooperative wholesalers with 35 outlets throughout the U. S. Meanwhile, he is interesting food research groups. At present they are trying to prove that, besides fruitcakes, citron is good in salads and fruit cups, as cocktail decorations...