Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spiritual and terrorist leader of Palestine's Arabs, the Mufti two years ago escaped to Syria, where French authorities, never very cooperative with the British in that part of the world, allowed him to continue to direct the Palestine terrorist campaign. Fortnight ago. however, French authorities arrested several of his followers, tightened the guard around his residence, appeared willing finally to cooperate with Britain in putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq...
...Moore-McCormack the deal was even better. Under U. S. Government charter and direct ownership the firm operates American Republics Line's passenger-freight service to South America. For that line, by late 1940, Moore-McCormack will have 14-$40,000,000 worth-new 9,000-to 12,000-ton, 16½-to 18-knot passenger-freight ships, constructed under the Maritime Commission's program for rebuilding the U. S. merchant marine. Seven of the new ships have already been launched. Faced with the loss of its Scandinavian-Baltic trade (American Scantic Line) for the duration...
...present policy will inevitably cause a substantial and Immediate damage to the educational effectiveness of the University. The damage is two-fold: direct and indirect. Directly, the policy injures the University by requiring it forthwith to dispense with the services of experienced teachers and to replace them with inexperienced teachers.... Indirectly, the policy injures the University by making it less attractive both to students and to younger teachers...
...Goebbels last week seized this occasion for a full-dress radio tirade against Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That was how you planned it, wasn't it, Mr. Churchill? That was how it was carried out also and then!-then this God-damned American citizen Anderson came along...
...usual, critics mourned that the right artists were being honored at the wrong time. More direct cause for mourning came from the fact that this will be the last Carnegie International until the end of World War II. War I stopped the show for six years; Depression...