Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undisputed claim to the title of No. 1 New Deal whipping boy ever since the President tired of lambasting the bankers. Not only did the New Deal create the toothy Public Utility Act of 1935 with its famed "death sentence" for holding companies, but it has gone in for direct and indirect competition on a vast and widening scale. Government money built TVA and Bonneville. Government money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value of U. S. utility securities...
...Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction to restrain the police, told the junkmen they were not employes but independent merchants and not covered by the Wagner Act. So last week junkmen began organizing a co-operative junk yard to ignore both wholesalers and retailers and sell direct to the mills. Hurt, the wholesaling members of Chicago's local Metal Institute retired to St. Joseph, Mich., to hear Milton Silverstein keynote their convention on "Playing the Game...
...these factories are in some cases subtle and hidden and in others they are brutally frank. . . . When and if a dealer fails to accede ... it is generally insinuated to him that if he did business with a certain finance company, perhaps he would get more prompt delivery. . . . Sometimes a direct threat of cancellation of his franchise is used...
...Ancion Regime. Mr. Lippman compares the limited abilities of man with the complexities of modern society and asks how the planners can possibly be expected to have a sufficient grasp of the situation to plan wisely. . "The whole social process is beyond any man's comprehension . . . Men cannot direct the social process. They can only intervene here and there...
...with the inexorable succession of extravaganzas emerging from Hollywood, the French picture "Mayerling," currently showing Danielle Darrieux, as the Austrian Baroness Marie, is refreshingly free from California glamour, and Charles Boyer, as the Archduke Rudolph, is straightforward and masculine. The plot, which concerns their tragic love, is simple and direct, leading to a forceful climax and concluding forthwith. There is no insipid anti-climax...