Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of you read it, but from the mail we have been getting it is hard to see how many could have missed it. To date, every state but Nevada has been heard from, and letters are still coming in. Interestingly enough, the volume of replies is in almost direct proportion to TIME'S readership in each state except Nevada...
...mind which permits itself the luxury of diversion from insistence upon peace assumes its full tragic character on the second anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death. For the magic of FDR's leadership lay in his ability to rally the best instincts of determination in America's people and direct them to the cause at hand. World order was his surpassing cause. Today the structure he envisioned has not been realized: yet is is only our failing in Will, and the absence of this personality, which prevents us from meeting our crisis four-square...
...editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...
...increases in the price of goods would backfire in the not-too-distant future. Consumers are finding it difficult to absorb current production, and the retailers are finding it hard to sell their goods. An R. H. Macy advertisement appealing to manufacturers to cut their prices is the direct result of a bad Easter season. Combined with a presidential request for lower costs, and a warning from their own N.A.M. that they are charging too much, business men have been well warned of future dangers. For concrete examples of what sudden slump would mean, they have samples in the sharp...
...vital factor in that fight. This exceptionally clearly-written Report has contributed one of the most worthwhile and comprehensive analyses ever undertaken of these American information media. It concludes that freedom of the press is in danger not so much from government interference as from the men who direct its activities, that the press has not yet accepted the full measure of its responsibility to the public. Such a thesis, coming not from professional detractors of the American press but from a competent commission headed by Robert Hutchins and financed largely by Time, Inc., should enjoy enough stature to batter...