Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, at the White House last week, the President dealt with the gravest European crisis since 1917 through the Department of State. To Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria, the President's only public reference was an indirect one at a press conference. Asked whether he had signed the Czechoslovakian Trade Treaty, in which Austria is mentioned on the list of most favored nations, the President said he had signed it, and that legally-if there was such a thing as international law-he had not at the time been officially informed by Austria that it had ceased...
...photoelectric control to turn on lights when illumination falls below the minimum. Because glare is as harmful as dimness, it also advised that glossy finish on furniture and glass tops on tables be eliminated, that pictures be varnished instead of glassed, that desks be shaded from the sun, that indirect lighting be used...
There is another side to the picture. The Japanese policy will probably be one of indirect control of China, through puppet governments, in an effort to avoid the difficulty just mentioned. Success in such a policy will require inexhaustible forbearance and finesse, more than can be expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl...
...sorry to see Reader Sullivan's shot at your estimate of Braque's painting score only an indirect hit and go skittering off to the side [TIME...
...title of No. 1 New Deal whipping boy ever since the President tired of lambasting the bankers. Not only did the New Deal create the toothy Public Utility Act of 1935 with its famed "death sentence" for holding companies, but it has gone in for direct and indirect competition on a vast and widening scale. Government money built TVA and Bonneville. Government money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value of U. S. utility securities has fallen some...