Word: downrightness
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...Roosevelt's cabin as he sailed down the Potomac in the U. S. S. Sequoia last weekend. The pesky insects annoyed the President almost as much as the knowledge that U. S. Industry was lagging behind his recovery program (see p. 12). To plan ways & means of curbing downright refusal by Industry to cooperate with the Government, should such a situation arise, the President had taken along Attorney General Cummings. What, if any, legal tactics were decided upon remained beneath their respective hats. But the President spared no praise in congratulating cotton textile manufacturers on their "faith, courage...
This brindle-haired, gruff-voiced man with a plainsman's capacity for a broad grin and an equal capacity for downright anger at what he considers foul play, managed Coolidge's Minnesota campaign in 1924. He was the sort of honest man Coolidge appreciated and five years later, in the early days of booming 1929, that President named him to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Republican he was elected chairman last January in time to execute Democrat Roosevelt's attack on bad security selling. He helped write the Securities Act, and today stands eager to enforce...
...April 3), and the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, whose President James Frederick Green, Yaleman, was permitted to sit in on the Geneva Conference during its siesta last year. Last week the U. S. vote was published. In 27 States, at 70 colleges, 22,627 students∙ voted as follows: for downright pacifism, 8,938 or 39% ; for bearing arms only in case of invasion. 7,342 or 33%; for bearing arms in any U. S. war, 6,347 or 28%. Most wholeheartedly pacifist were 13 women's colleges (49% against, 23% semi, 25% for) and ten State colleges (42% against...
...income tax evasion by bankers but downright defalcation was the subject when the Senate sub-committee investigating the closing of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank (TIME, March 27) got John William Pole, onetime Comptroller of the Currency, before it. The committee wanted to know why he had not personally investigated the case of Joseph Wright Harriman, accused of crockery...
...that ''we have never been losing more money than now." Presently he was succeeded as president by William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, and made chairman of Texas Co. And last week, without .explanation, he resigned that job having held it a little over a week. In place of downright Mr. Holmes was elected a kindly old gentleman, Charles Bismark Ames, formerly vice president and counsel of Texas Co., since last autumn president of the American Petroleum Institute at $50,000 a year...