Word: forthright
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...blunt, forthright commander, may refuse to make recommendations; another, brought up in the tradition of bemedaling, may lean in the other direction...
Perhaps Governor Wills's forthright speech helped Wendell Willkie with the G.O.P. rank & file, but it sent Willkie stock even lower among the professional GOPoliticians at Chicago. Among them there was a growing unanimity that New York's Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey was their...
...defeat, indefatigable in attack, insufferable in victory!" When Monty turned up in London last week, primed to take command of British ground troops in the invasion of Western Europe, he had again endeared himself to his men if not to the War Office. He had left with them a forthright farewell summary of the Eighth Army's epic record...
...forthright Wayne Lyman Morse left Washington last week for a vacation at his Oregon farm. Just before his departure it was reported that Wayne Morse would seek his State's Republican nomination for U.S. Senator, with formal announcement to be made from his Oregon home...
Wisconsin-born Wayne Morse loves a fight. As the able, forthright dean of Oregon University's law school, he fought hard for labor arbitration on the West Coast. As leader of WLB's public members, he has repeatedly forced Franklin Roosevelt to hold the line on inflation. In nearly 100, excellently clear WLB decisions (he wrote the Little Steel formula) he has favored neither labor nor management, hewing a straight line down the middle, largely in the public interest. In the final showdown with John Lewis, Morse was the unreconstructed diehard who stood firm against John...