Word: forthright
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Leo Higginson Professor of History, emeritus, called De Voto "a notable figure in our generation." He added that "some of us thought his forthright stands were very enlightened...
...Forthright Stand. Congressman Celler had long since taken a bead on a likely target: Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and the businessmen who work for the Government without compensation in the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. As chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Celler invited Secretary Weeks to come up and testify about the council. When Weeks replied that he did not know when he might find time, Committee Chairman Celler pronounced the answer evasive. And evasive answers, he went on, were a subject he knew something about. Turning to a fellow committeeman, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, Celler...
...Bulganin gently praised the West and the new atmosphere, but for the most part emphasized the unchanged stand of the Soviet Union on all foreign-policy questions, particularly Germany and the satellite states. Then he came to the point where he was bound to give an answer to the forthright proposal of President Eisenhower that both countries exchange blueprints and aerial reconnaissance...
Should the Republican presidential field be open with President Eisenhower not running, Goodwin Knight would be the most formidable Republican available. He is dynamic, forthright and honest. There isn't any Republican of national prominence who compares with "Goodie" as a campaigner...
...generally saner approach to the whole problem of academic freedom. No longer is the typical case necessarily that of the professor who refused point-blank to testify to a committee. Faculty people have learned that silence or impudence before investigators is usually more inimical to their own cause than forthright, honest testimony. The resolution, or at least simplification, of some issues, however, has left at least one problem more isolated and more important than ever before. Should a professor who has abandoned constitutional safeguards and testified fully about himself also be obliged to tell about his former associates in communist...