Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slowly dawned on the audience that in an indirect, personal but shrewdly purposeful way he was making it appear that the Democratic Nominee, because of his specific proposals in connection with water power, farm relief, prohibition and the tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while he, the Republican, stood for "the American system of rugged individualism . . . diametrically opposed." It was a shrewd thing to try to do in the financial capital of the U. S. But it was a difficult speech to grasp. It seemed to overshoot the mark...
Before lending attention to what the Democrat had said the Republican paid his respects to New England industriousness, to the importance of foreign trade, to the current administrations "measures to vigorously restore and expand" that trade, not omitting the Commerce Department's share in the work, with indirect reference to the Hoover deeds in breaking down foreign (British) monopolies (rubber, coffee...
...Cherrington said: "In view of the fact that Prohibition is just now such a vital issue in the political field, even that which under ordinary circumstances would be considered strictly educational, may not be wholly without political effect, either direct or indirect, but the activities mentioned above are educational in character...
Screaming their mad cries in the streets of great U. S. cities, swooping, circling in angry and despairing arcs, manned by a rude, desperate soldiery, taxicabs are to be seen, making indirect money for their inventor, John Hertz. With this money John Hertz, propelled by the gracious irony which controls the careers of capitalists, buys himself horses. Some of the horses he gives to his wife, a lady Republican of note; he keeps them in his Leona Stables, at Gary...
Tobacco & Sodas. United Cigar Stores bought considerable stock in Bastian-Blessing Co., from whom it will buy all its soda fountain equipment needed during the next ten years. Bastian-Blessing dividends thus will be a sort of indirect, shuttle profit to United Cigars...