Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct the battle for Manchuria...
...Accept in payment any sort of benefit, direct of indirect, which the President may find satisfactory...
...proud of his family. The Pitts had been mountain men in the Ramapos since Revolutionary War days, and they claimed to be direct descendants of famed William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. "This Lord Pitt," they liked to boast, "he was lord of all England." The Pitts and the Starrs and the Conklins were the aristocrats of the hills...
With the artistic freedom they had gained, Capra, Wyler and Stevens had also acquired the worries of businessmen. Wyler sighed: "I have no talent for business. I don't like it. What I want to do is direct pictures. But now I have to fuss with lawyers, make decisions about distribution, be a salesman and so on. I just don't know...
Paul E. DesMarais '49 was elected president of the Music Club Tuesday night, at the group's final gathering of the term. Also chosen to direct club activities next fall are Douglas Allanbrook '48 as vice-president, James R. Blake '48 as Secretary-treasurer, and Peter Gram Swing '44 and John T. Swing '50 as Program Committee members...