Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cresap denies that his ancestor, Captain Cresap, murdered the family of Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...
North Dakota's Nye, as usual, wanted a Senate investigation. He introduced a resolution to direct the State Department to cable Ambassador Dodd for his billionaire's name. But Senator Nye was not to have the fun and publicity which Congressional inquisitors got out of the dictator nightmares of Major General Smedley Butler and Gary's Dr. William Wirt in 1934. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman promptly came to the aid of the State Department by getting the resolution referred to his committee for "study and inquiry...
...legislation (TIME, April 19 et seq.), Representative Arthur Wergs Mitchell, only Negro in the U. S. Congress, last month decided he needed a rest. A Chicagoan, big, grey-haired Arthur Mitchell chose to spend his holiday at Hot Springs, Ark., favorite rest haven of Chicago politicians. Instead of going direct from Washington, he returned home first, bought a first-class round-trip railroad ticket and Pullman accommodations on the Illinois Central, set out from Chicago...
...need to take the equivalent of five whole courses with an average of six hours a week spent on laboratory work in each of them. Courses such as Chemistry 4, Chemistry 6, and Physics 2 and 3, among those designed for undergraduate consumption, all provide technical experience in direct physical or chemical measurement...
Military Science IV seniors who will direct the demonstration are Charles W. Kessler, Battalion Commander, F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., Battalion adjutant, and the four Battery commanders, James J. Gaffney, Jr., Robert A. Williams, Edward T. Gignoux, and Francis A, Wendell. Other important Senior officers of the unit are Clifton F. Kann, Malcolm S. M. Watts, Jr., William F. Renner, Richard M. Walsh, Jr., Henry M. Adlis, and Richard S. Levering...