Word: indiscreetness
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...Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state...
...company's management should consult the will of its owners. The owners managed to ask a few simple questions (what are working conditions in the firm's mills?), a few naïve questions (what can you do to change the taste of bread?), a few indiscreet questions (what do Wheaties' baseball broadcasts cost?), but seldom a question that made real business sense about the dollars-&-cents policies of the company. The management provided some discussion of generalities, including "sound economic ideas" and "costly experiments with business," but what most stockholders seemed to understand best were bowls...
...been "very much put out" to hear, the very night the troopships left Halifax, a broadcast from Germany announcing that the ships had left, and how many. After the ships' safe arrival, he gave suspended two-year jail sentences to three women who pleaded guilty to writing indiscreet letters to persons in the U. S. about ship movements at Halifax...
Last night I acted indiscreet...
...years there have been some great doings. In 1859 a band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings...