Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With great enthusiasm and a high resolve not to dishonor its name, a group of Cossack villagers form the Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright, well-meaning mechanic and onetime gunner who arrives at the isolated village of Gremyachy Log, in the Don basin, with instructions to organize all the farmers except the wealthy ones. He is ably assisted in getting into messes by Nagulnov, secretary of the Communist Party in the village, a long...
Having in six months established a solid reputation as an able, honest, forthright administrator. Charles Richard Gay stepped out last week as a Public Figure. In a speech before a Manhattan meeting of the American Management Association he took a bold grasp of a nettled question which few politicians-let alone the head of the biggest and most volatile U. S. stock exchange-would dare to handle on a public rostrum. Said...
Although unfortunate, the action of the Athletic Committee in declaring Captain Bob Haley ineligible was forthright and in accord with Harvard's traditionally high athletic policy. Thus the Harlow regime begins with a reaffirmation of standards. And the success it promises will be enhanced by the security of the ground upon which it stands...
...Pfab was a registered pharmacist, a onetime professional baseballer, an organizer of a Denver insurance company. They did know that Promoter Pfab's current venture was the high-sounding National Educators' Mutual Association, which sold ''endowment bonds" to teachers. The Pfab scheme was simple and forthright, if not generous. In return for $750 in cash, a teacher would receive a bond redeemable in ten years for $1,000 in cash plus five shares of stock in the Association. To lend prestige to his organization. Mr. Pfab also issued 50 shares of stock to each...
...enforcing competent standards of reporting and presenting the products thereof in a direct and forthright manner, regardless of the cobweb strands and musty rituals of the learned professions, TIME deserves wholehearted congratulations...