Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, and when layoffs began the shop was apparently ripe for revolt. One strike early in the week was quickly discontinued, but the suspension of four of its leaders immediately brought on another outbreak. In Lansing, Fisher Body workers reached the point of taking a strike vote but direct pressure from U. A. W. President Homer Martin helped kill the move. Adding to the workers' discontent have been the grinding negotiations for a new G. M. contract. After a five-month wrangle at the council table G. M. and the union negotiators finally agreed to a 15-page document...
...proof were still lacking that the bloody Soviet purge of the past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of three Soviet career women. Removed without warning from the post of Commissar for Finance was Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, to be succeeded by a little-known man, Nikolai Sokolov...
Planners. Credit for this ultra-modern document under Chairman Kennedy's signature goes to spade worker Robert Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting...
Charity Hospital's present trouble is a direct result of the late Huey Long's insistent attentions to this oldest (founded in 1737)charity hospital in the country. In 1928 Long "captured" the hospital, discharged an experienced director, and put in charge Dr. Arthur Vidrine, 31, a promising graduate of Tulane University who had done post-graduate work in surgery in London, Oxford and Paris hospitals, as well as in Charity Hospital where Tulane and University of Louisiana medi-cal students all get their preliminary practice. In Dr. Vidrine's particular favor for this important post...
These reports are an official channel through which the Board can communicate its views to the President and Fellows of the University, who are the direct administrators of the Departments...