Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McKeough's admission that he was still on P.A.C.'s payroll did not help. It brought the Administration down to the earthy argument that his rejection would play direct into Republican hands. Nine Democrats, six of them Southerners, were unimpressed, voted with the Republicans anyhow. But it was not enough. Raymond McKeough squeezed through by an eight-vote margin, was confirmed...
...Atomic Energy Commission to be appointed by the President would have power to seize property needed to develop atomic energy, to control raw materials entering the process, to forbid or subsidize private research, to direct Government research. Stiff penalties, ranging up to 30 years in prison, were provided for infractions of the commission's rulings...
...your Moscow correspondent omniscient, or (as seems even more unlikely) does he have a direct pipeline to the Kremlin...
...Southern Korea a simple fact is news: the grade schools have reopened. The run-down buildings were emptied several months ago when the Japs evacuated school children; the intellectual shutdown occurred a generation ago. The Army is solving the textbook problem the direct way, by going into the printing business. Freedom of worship is back, too. Church bells ring on Sunday morning, and the other day the Most Reverend Paul Ro, Archbishop of Seoul, celebrated a solemn high mass of thanksgiving for liberation...
...Canadian Pacific and the Hud son's Bay Co., both holders of vast mineral rights in Saskatchewan, the mineral-tax law was virtually "confiscatory." The Dominion Loan & Mortgage challenge was almost surely a direct result of the fact that this year Saskatchewan's crop is poor...