Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to tell you just what I did say about Preston Bradley. Among other things I said, "We admire him for the enemies that he has made. It is to his eternal credit, for example, that the Hitler Government would not permit him to enter Germany because of his outspoken passion for humanity and human decency. Since, therefore, Hitler does not like him anyway, it might not be out of place for me to close my remarks with the ancient Jewish benediction: 'May he thus continue to serve even unto his hundredth year.' "... Louis L. MANN...
...auction was ordered by Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, tall, dark, muscular grandson of the first Baron Rothschild and heir, who will be 27 years old next autumn. His reason was not penury but a lack of interest in magnificence. A strong-minded, outspoken young man of modern tastes, he played cricket at Harrow and now golfs, but his major interest is biology. He lives with his wife in a small house in Cambridge, where he has no room for ponderous treasures. He has a small but choice collection of Cézannes, Picassos, Renoirs...
When Heywood Broun, the New York World-Telegram's crusading columnist, called the first meeting to form a Newspaper Guild in December 1933, Morris Watson was one of the handful that showed up. From the outset he was a zealous Guild organizer and officer, outspoken not only against his employers but leading a campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, an AP member. He headed deputations to Washington, signed demands by the Guild to his AP superiors. He was told his Guild activities were lessening his value at the AP and finally, Oct. 18, 1935 he was fired "because...
...nobody can betray Ireland: it does not give him the chance; it betrays him first." An ex-senator of the Irish Free State, he has no love for the Republicans, not one good word for de Valera: "De Valera and degeneration are synonymous." As an outspoken enemy of the Irish Republican Army during the Civil War (1922-23), he was shot at, kidnapped, had his country house burned down. At that point he took his family to England for a strategic vacation...
...member of the Boston Bar Association, continuing his law office at 10 Postoffice Square when well past his 98th year. He passed his bar examination in 1868, six years after graduation from college. Four of the intervening years were taken up with naval service in the Civil War. An outspoken critic of the New Deal, he reiterated his stand on his last birthday by blaming the Roosevelt administration for "the greatest demoralization in our history". He was also one of the major donors of the Harvard Theatre Collection, considered one of the finest in the country...