Word: factualism
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...services rendered as Official Greeter. Appointed to that post July 3, 1931, Col. Gaw made a name for himself by going to greeting in snow-white clothes, a snow-white car escorted by motorcycles. He wrote a greeting song ("Greetings, Chicago Welcomes You."), encouraged functionaries to make brief factual recitals to visitors (Bell boys: "Happy Days. Sir; 20,000 speakeasies in the City."). With the election of Mayor Kelly, he returned to the envelope business. Explained he : "There is no salary for me. . . . I paid out for a secretary, stenographers, automobile hire, telegrams, telephones...
...result of her adventures is an absorbingly interesting record, written with such artful candor that it reads like a first-rate novel. I Went to Pit College will be an eye opener to anyone who supposes that a serious book about striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except on the jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat in itself; on the strength of her masterly thesis...
...function of a university to any other interest constitutes a betrayal of the implicit or explicit agreement contained in the acceptance of such aid. Such a betrayal is particularly regrettable today, when the fate of democratic institutions is in the balance, when the need for men trained not in factual minutiae but in the art of thought is greater than ever before...
...period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank. A garish specimen of the oleographic school of portraiture, The First Billion, in spite of its crude perspective and uncertain line, has enough factual force to make a simple reader's flesh creep. At the other extreme from eulogy, it contains about as little of the blood of human likeness. Author Winkler's unretouched journalese is no more sensitive a medium than newsprint, but today's banker-conscious readers may consider...
According to the Presidential order, Director Walker's duties would be: "Consolidating, coordinating and making more efficient and productive the emergency activities of the Government." He was to start by "conveying to the general public all factual information with reference to the various Governmental agencies." On a nation-wide scale his Council's representatives were to steer befuddled citizens through the fog of new Washington agencies to the particular bureau that could supply the relief needed. As a starter $10,000-per-year-man Walker hired for his headquarters assistant Eugene Sheldon Leggett, redheaded young Washington correspondent...