Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believes that commercial aviation would be profitable in the U. S. with only indirect aid from the Government. He recommended...
...reduction of crime (TIME, Aug. 10). Mr. Wickersham brought in a report of a committee on organization. It provided for a National Crime Commission, an informal body of prominent citizens, to be headed by a chairman, who should select a small committee, a finance committee and proceed by indirect means to a war on crime...
...budget receipts for next year, he continued, will amount to 3,560,000,000 gold rubles ($1,780,000,000), or more than a million rubles more than this year's budget. This is to be collected mainly from indirect taxation (1,568,000,000 rubles), transportation (1,250,000,000 rubles) and State property (500,000,000 rubles...
...this was not all. The General began to treat with the Opposition, explicitly the Seiyu-Honto Party, which, as an indirect result of the murder of Premiar Hara in 1921, split from the Seiyukai in January, 1924. The significance of this last move, coming as it does on top of the others, was that it would, if successful, give General Tanaka no less than 250 seats, or an absolute majority of the House of Representatives. It was therefore argued, as the move seemed likely to succeed, that the days of the Kato Cabinet are numbered, although doubtless it will remain...
...produced for the entertainment of those who see in the work of the expressionistic school the grotesque death agonies of a diseased romanticism. Not quite concealed beneath its fantastic imagery runs an undercurrent of satire against several of the more inartistic features of American life; and it is this indirect accusation that makes the production of the play interesting from a point of view both technical and broadly introspective. For its continued refusal to exploit the commonplace, the Dramatic Club deserves and will receive the thanks of those who believe that the stage can serve a somewhat higher purpose than...