Word: informativeness
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...Arthur V. Davis, chairman of the board of the Aluminum Co. of America . . . and ex plained that I felt that Germany, her allies and conquered territories . . . could produce three times the aluminum that his company was producing in America, and I stated that I thought he should inform our Government of the true situation and not permit us to be caught in the same position as France. I urged him to ask for Government funds sufficient to enable his company to produce 1,000,000,000 lb. of aluminum. . . . Mr. Davis expressed himself that he felt I was unnecessarily alarmed...
...which announced that a young lieutenant disguised as a butler had made his way into enemy headquarters, served a three-course dinner to the commanding general, then put a box of chocolates into the general's bed. Inside the box was a note: "Dear Sir: This is to inform you that this is a bomb which would have exploded when you touched it with your foot. Yours respectfully, Fifth Columnist...
...That is not the way to make democracy work and prove itself in the greatest test to which it has ever been subjected. To fail to inform the people, waiting for them to lead him, is not democracy but demagogy. To act as if the people had to be manipulated is to deny the very virtues on which rests the hope of democracy; it is to think that free men will shrink from the truth and flinch in their duty...
...implication of the policy is that if any Harvard team with a colored athlete on the roster is scheduled to play a college with known or suspected anti-Negro sentiments, the Athletic Committee will inform them of the fact. If the other college refuses to play against the colored athlete, the game will simply be called...
Arranged to inform the Seniors, as prospective Alumni, about the activities and responsibilities of the Alumni Association, the dinner is the second such to be held here for Alumni and members of the graduating class...