Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated...
...occupy his mind; for, although the King is normally a figurehead, an expression of national unity, actually he wields considerable power in an advisory capacity, without, however, crossing the initiative of the Government. In other words, the King's direct powers are small; but the sum of his indirect power, exercised in a large number of ways, is so tremendous that it is impossible to estimate it. So great leaders as Gladstone, Asquith, Lloyd George, and so eminent a contemporary constitutional authority as Marriott have all made and upheld this point...
Their latest application of indirect methods has been directed against the evils of being born elsewhere than in these United State. The New York Federation of Women's Clubs has resolved that "no person except a natural-born citizen of the United States be eligible to be a Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet or Speaker of the House of Representatives." Alexander Hamilton, Carl Schurz and many other names illustrious in American history were cited by opponents of the resolution as proof that foreign birth does not disqualify a man for great service to the United...
...fact that the Air Service had so much preliminary work to do in surveying the routes, depositing fuel and supplies all over the globe and generally carrying out a gigantic task in organization. Of course, Uncle Sam had to dig much deeper into his pocket in reality. Indirect expenses, such as the cost of fuel burned by destroyers in the Pacific, by Coast Guard cutters in Alaskan waters, by scout cruisers and destroyers in the North Atlantic, were borne by the Navy, not the Air Service-but the taxpayer paid for them nevertheless...
...year previous, and 9½ billion dollars in 1921-22. It suggested that cooperative marketing might disappoint those who have very great hopes of it, and expressed the opinion that, in aiding the movement, the Government's assistance would be of most value if confined to the indirect services of advice and information. The farmers must be left in complete control of their cooperative enterprises...