Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forthright Socialists are its Chairman Francis Adams Henson, 26, a Columbia graduate student; Professor John Bennett (Philosophy of Religion) of Auburn Theological Seminary; Director Walter Ludwig of Pioneer Youth of America; Economics Instructor Patrick M. Malin of Swarthmore College; Field Secretary Paul Porter of the League for Industrial Democracy; Graduate Student E. B. Shultz of Union Theological Seminary; Industrial Secretary Charles Webber of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Its other members: Harold F. Clark, Josephine Little, Lois MacDonald, Mildred I. Morgan, Clara Taylor, Sidnev David Gamble (Ivory Soap family...
Last week the Weekly continued its attack, said "its importance warrants full discussion by the Yale public." And in The Harkness Hoot, newest, most forthright of Yale journals, appeared "The Elks in Our Midst," by Richard S. Childs, Yale junior, suggesting that the Senior Societies be abolished by boycott, that the Junior class refrain from appearing "like slaves for sale upon the campus on Tap Day." The Yale Daily News, edited by juniors, and whose chairman is automatically in line for tapping, had printed Keysman Hobson's letter, and reprinted the Weekly editorials. Last week, making no mention...
...Monkey Wife Author John Collier has written a more forthright satire than did David Garnett in Lady Into Fox, but the tone of the two books is similar. You may be shocked by some of Author Collier's implications; never by what he says. Nothing is here for tears; plenty for a smile...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
Brahms' Symphony No. 4 by the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Conductor Max Fiedler (Brunswick, $9)-A faithful, forthright performance by an old Boston Symphony leader (1908-12) who knew the composer...