Word: downrightness
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...example, when politicians tell him, for their own purposes, that the tariff discriminates against him, he believes it. Were the politicians honest, they would say that the tariff favors manufacturers, which is very different. But instead of mere jealousy, the farmer has been made to feel that he suffers downright injury from the manufacturers' tariff. Similarly, ever since the Government fixed farm prices as a War measure, the farmer has been told, and he believes, there is no honest reason why the Government should not try to stabilize farm prices permanently. The Federal Reserve Board stabilizes the money market...
...four Senators quickly cleansed their names of the Hearstian smear, in downright statements. Senator Heflin was most agitated. He roared about "scalawags, crooks and scoundrels." In the course of his protestimony he was obliged to tell about receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Roman Catholic orations...
...adjoining column will be found a communication which should be of interest to all such as are worried--if not downright hysterical--about the approaching Reading Period. Coming unsolicited from the head of the College Library, these hints on the use of Widener should, if followed, do their share toward making the first Reading Period a less perilous venture...
...called it) to President Lewis Eugene Pierson of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He told Mr. Pierson, who is a banker, that he was surprised by the Chamber's "misconception of facts"; by its "generalizations" about the surplus, which it had no accurate means of estimating; by downright errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck...
...flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life...