Word: forthright
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Head of prosperous Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (batteries, electrical recorders, etc.) in New Jersey is Thomas Alva Edison's unassuming son, Charles Edison. Having resigned as Secretary of the Navy to be the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, Charles Edison last week took a forthright step. He had a notice posted in his plants...
Next day the platform crept out, as forthright against sin as all platforms, and after New York's Senator Robert A. Wagner had read the whole document through, the delegates knuckled down to their task. Taking no chances whatever, Hopkins & Co. had commandeered Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for Term III. Balding, melodramatic Senator Hill laid his ears back and bayed in a manner so floridly reminiscent of Civil War Days that editorials in Southern newspapers blushed for Southern shame for days afterward...
Frank Craven is Our Town's spokesman. As he stands against a cloud-piled sky, he might be any kind of American, a farmer, an editor, a bookie. He is the village druggist. Like the other villagers, he is dirt-plain, sensible, forthright. Tolerance with him is a form of humor. He never loses his balance in between. Unlike the other villagers, he is articulate. Like most Americans, he prefers to let things and people speak for themselves. He just introduces them...
...exporters began taking British business right under the cartel's nose, in spite of the tariff of the Ottawa agreements. So a few years ago ?20,000,000 Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., the No. 1 British iron, sheet and tin-plate producer, decided to modernize. Its chairman, a forthright, anti-banker industrialist named Sir William John Firth, went to Pittsburgh and hired the experts of United Engineering & Foundry Co. to build him a continuous mill. They signed a contract for a giant (?8,500,000, 650,000 ton) rolling mill to be built in Lincolnshire, where Richard Thomas...
...Crimson's editorial policy in regard to our country's part in the European war has been distinct, forthright, and consistent, but somehow unconvincing. May I point out two assumptions, each more or less crucial to your stand, which none of your editorials has met directly...