Word: downrightness
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...Releases. Bitterest spleen was reserved for the Administration's principal pressagent in its fight against power companies-the Federal Trade Commission. Declaring that he was still searching for stronger words, the Institute's Managing Director Bernard Francis Weadock accused the Commission of "fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, dishonesty, downright maliciousness, breach of trust" in its eight-year power probe (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.). Director Weadock is supposed to be the only person who has ploughed through every page of the 73 volumes of the Commission's findings. The five Commissioners he exonerates on the ground that they...
Nearly every lawyer, broker, banker and businessman in the land last week was almost wholly preoccupied with the overthrow of NRA. Full implications of the Supreme Court's decision were by no means clear, and while U. S. Business was more relieved than downright joyful, it was also jittery. Overnight, the stock-market greeted the return of business freedom with an opening rally, then dropped sharply, declined for the rest of the week. Uncertainty over the future of NRA and other New Deal legislation precipitated a general break in commodities. Wheat sank 5? per bu. to the lowest price...
...after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine a tourist should be expected to believe in the continued, known existence of Christ's tomb, the manger in which he was laid at Bethlehem and the very hillside on which the shepherds slept that night. But it was downright "fantastic" to be told by a Franciscan in "Mary's house" that "the Virgin stood at this pillar, and Gabriel at that pillar when he announced to her that she would be mother of the Savior...
...businessmen have often had the jitters in the past two years of the New Deal. Sometimes they have been critical, sometimes impatient, frequently downright fearful. Often they have been angry. Last week they were just plain gloomy...
Unhackneyed, humorous and at times downright noble, Playwright Obey's Noah should tickle sophisticates with its whimsicality, should bring temporary comfort to those involved in life's complexities, should cause sheer delight to the pure in heart. First produced in French in Paris, Noah has the same sort of appeal as The Green Pastures. But it is clearly a product from the banks of the Seine, not the Mississippi, could not possibly be taken as an imitation...