Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master Plan will be left largely in the hands of local authorities. By last week 15 municipal bodies of badly blitzed British cities (London, Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, etc.) had consented to work along the Master Plan's lines. The Corporation of the City of London considered buying outright all the land on which the center of the city stands: the 673 acres long dubbed "the richest square mile in the world...
...Frankfurter on Feb. 3 handed down the Supreme Court's 6-to-2 opinion in the Hutcheson case. Effect of the ruling was that labor unions, except in exceptional cases, may not be prosecuted under antitrust laws, i.e., may freely continue practices ranging from restraints of trade to outright racketeering. The Hutcheson decision stamped an O.K. on such labor-union restraints of trade as these...
With stubborn Russian resistance to the Nazis on the east and U.S. aid on the west, many an ebullient Briton has come to believe that World War II is as good as won. Such optimists, surprised and petulant when the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting did not hatch an outright U.S. declaration of war, have been inclined to complain about U.S. timidity both in private and public...
...river and out to the races. Perhaps this was intended to stifle persistent rumors of a rift between General Weygand and the Vichy Government, for otherwise it did not seem like the week for Vichymen to go frivoling. Adolf Hitler was bearing down harder than ever for outright Nazi-Vichy military collaboration in North Africa...
...poll are the findings of James S. Twohey Associates, analysts of newspaper opinion, on war sentiment as reflected in editorial columns rather than by editors personally. In the past seven months ending July 31, a total of 30% of the U.S. press at one time or another editorialized for outright U.S. entry into war. Counting papers that demanded some form of more lively aid for Britain, interventionist editorials came out in 65% of the press in the average week. But the weekly percentage fluctuated widely around the average. In the week of May 3, following sharp demand for convoys, interventionist...