Word: outright
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...Eden announced that he was also resigning his seat in Parliament. Since outright resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down...
...placed on the sacrificial altar of anti-Communism. Men away from Washington were horrified by the State Department's cowardice in the Ladejinsky affair. Although these incidents did not necessarily demand the approach which Acheson took towards the accusations against Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore, the lack of any outright defense of the State Department against the incursions of the Congress changed the atmosphere in the Foreign Service. From a feeling that the Secretary would at least attempt to protect their reputations, diplomats have come to realize that they are strictly on their own in any battles with Capitol Hill...
...Appleseed, FRB Chairman William Martin pleaded with businessmen to take another hard look, and perhaps cut down on expansion and their demands for credit. "Creating more money will not create more goods," he argued. "It can only intensify demands for the current supply of labor and materials. That is outright inflation...
...Outright Inflation." Bill Martin replied quietly, lucidly, in a prepared statement. The job of the Federal Reserve Board, said he, is "to determine the volume of credit that needs to be made available in order to keep the economy running in high gear-but without overstrain. Too much credit would intensify upward pressures on prices. Too little could needlessly starve some activities . . . Creating more money will not create more goods. It can only intensify demands for the current supply of labor and materials. That is outright inflation." No sooner had Martin finished his statement than the politically potent questions began...
Even admirers of Lott were distressed about his endorsement of the newly founded November Front, with its obscure aims and oddly mixed membership, including career army officers, opportunistic politicos, labor leaders, left-leaners and outright Communists. The front's avowed purpose is to block any attempt by opponents of the Kubitschek administration to overthrow the government. But Kubitschek & Co., far from rejoicing in the front's support, regard it with a wary...