Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Hyde Park, reporters made one more effort to get a direct Presidential comment on Associate Justice Black. When a reporter read the President's previous statement, implying that it implied there might be another, Franklin Roosevelt's smile vanished. He announced that he had not heard from Justice Black since his return from Europe and that he had nothing more to say about the matter...
This year's broadcasts will be carried by the non-commercial Boston station W1XAL, endowed by private donations and the Rockefeller Foundation for cultural programs. Beginning early last spring, W1XAL transmitted fifteen lectures direct from the classrooms, as well as University church services, outdoor concerts, and commencement features...
Pools and manipulation. "I can assure you that there will be direct, aggressive prosecution of any and every case we can discover...
...make Wall Street dance to his cat-o'-nine-tails, they will soon turn upon him as bitterly as they did on Chairman Landis, making his public life a burden to him. Both sides will attempt to circumvent him by intrigue, to drive him before them by direct assault. He is fortunate in having the temperament of a man who goes his own way, but anyway he treads will be paved with thorns...
...Mexican statesman and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Onetime head of the Mexican Foreign Office, Mexican Minister to Turkey, Ambassador to Spain, head of the Mexican delegation to the League of Nations, Señior Estrada in 1931 promulgated the Estrada Doctrine ("Doctrina Mexicana"). In direct opposition to the Monroe Doctrine, which had been incorporated into the League Covenant, the Estrada Doctrine proclaimed every Latin-American nation's exclusive right to be its own big brother...