Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...
...pictures to which Reader Netedu refers were taken at Life Camps-the 51-year-old charitable enterprise founded by the comic weekly Life, taken over and carried on by TIME Inc. when it acquired the name LIFE for its new picture magazine. Under the direction of Lloyd Burgess Sharp are two boys' camps, at Pottersville, N. J. and Matamoras, Pa.; one girls' camp at Branchville, Conn. Life Camps have been supported by nationwide private contributions. This year the entire overhead is being paid by TIME Inc., thus ensuring that every contributed dollar will go direct to the child...
...Berry was editor of the Cornell Widow in the time of George Jean Nathan, then practiced law in Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...
...clear up all misunderstandings at press conferences the President issued what amounted to style book for White House newshawks. It divided all Presidential utterances into four categories: Back ground Remarks which can be directly attributed to the President but in the third person, without quotation marks; Direct Quotations for the occasional phrase, sentence or statement which he announces can be put in direct quotes; Non-attributable Information, dope the press can put out under any brand name that does not indicate its source; Off the Record, secrets, no fair telling under any pretext...
...Direct appeal to the Supreme Court in cases where the constitutionality of laws is questioned...