Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those present had slightly too much regard for Mr. Hearst's altruism, and were rudely shocked when he was accused of ulterior motives. But the overwhelming majority came and went in firm opposition to his principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem...
...than the nine resolutions which the NCAA adopted for the New Year. For these resolutions without enforcing clauses are reminiscent of the Kellogg Peace Pact which has been so unsuccessful in preventing war when individual interests point the other way. What is more, they neglect the Harvard problems of indirect graduate influence and subsidization...
Having seen all these arrangements the President rolled into his own new office?oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite...
...Export-Import Bank guarantee 75% of credits to be extended to Russia by U. S. firms on the basis of Red orders in a volume of some $50,000,000 per year. Part of the interest charged Bolsheviks on these credits would go into the U. S. Treasury as indirect repayment of the Tsarist and Kerensky debts which Stalin & Co. positively refuse to acknowledge as such. It was this refusal, still maintained, which caused Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes to lay down the doctrine: no payment, no recognition (TIME...
...last scene centers in the private sanctum of the Gold Eagle Line, 1906. Here one sees plushy opulence indirect and each visitor must enter through a golden Arc de Trlomphe, from which dangles a heavy medallion. Young Guy comes gleefully in to tell his hated failure that the scuttled ship has been said vaged, and the crime thereby disclose Gold Eagle tries to reason, but failling that he invokes the Deity to descend upon on this wayward Absalom. At the dramatic moment, Heaven responds with a beautifully-handled earthquake, in which father and son perish as the Gold Eagle...