Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Watching this situation with bright eyes was Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who did not like being left out of the picture. Distinctly hostile to her, Congress had twice refused to give Madam Perkins direct authority over the Labor Department's semi-autonomous Wage-Hour Division. Administrator Andrews would brook no interference by Madam Secretary. Last week, as soon as he moved out, Frances Perkins moved...
...came last week. Late one rainy afternoon, a British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast and one in Norway. Attacking force, according...
...menace to Harvard education. But their statements and abortive attempts to end tutoring could go on forever without accomplishing any actual gain. Some more positive action seems necessary if the importance of tutoring in the lives of undergraduates is to be seriously diminished. Perhaps the best solution would be direct action on the part of the University...
...able to look to its intellectual and spiritual leaders for moderating counsel to support, not destroy the neutral temper of a great nation, bent on staying at peace. We are inclined to agree with the Crimson that there have been notable failures in this respect. . . . We believe that the direct interest of the undergraduates makes them equal in importance as a pressure group to their teachers, for all their prestige. Boston Transcript...
...just lower their heads and ram into the line for their yardage. It's much loss complicated that way, and there are three of them to alternate at the thankless task. So you'll see less spinning from the Quakers than from the Crimson, but more plays on a direct pass from center...