Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glenn called this pilfering of the church's war chest . . . . "stealing, misappropriation, embezzlement . . ." powerful words before a convention of prelates. His capably expressed indignation deserves praise from the whole body of the laity, not only for the justice of it, but for its vigor and motivation. Such outspoken men are few enough in the ranks of the clergy, and it is an encouraging sign of the age to discover a minister as strong in action as he is from the pulpit...
BUSINESS men who came to Washington expecting that the Government of the United States in the person of General Hugh Johnson would hold the scales even in interpreting the law were shocked at the outspoken championship of organized labor and the denunciation of the so-called company union...
...respectful attention to Dr. Harold Tobin, Dartmouth League Critic, slight, dark, nervous, and bespectacled, who clung desperately to the back of his chair, swayed from side to side, and assured the league that its critics, charging it with futility, were wrong, to be ignored. Dr. Tobin further delivered an outspoken if almost inaudible attack on Secretary Wallace, saying that the secretary desires an impossibility when he asks for economic relations without political entanglements...
...South Manchuria Railway. Germany longed to do likewise, but refrained from a definite commitment until the Nazi Government could decide whether it would make more money by recognizing Ta Manchu Tikuo than it would lose by insulting the Nationalist Government of China. Even the U. S., most outspoken under the Hoover regime in its criticism of Japan's Manchurian grab, seemed ready for a change of heart last week. Henry Lewis Stimson had published manifestoes and baldly announced that under no condition would the U. S. recognize Manchukuo because it had been set up by force of arms...
Chronicle took the meeting by surprise when he charged Duke's faculty with undermining student morale by its outspoken hostility to the administration. He called on professors to put their own complaints in writing or hold their tongues. The students passed his resolution. Afterward they remembered Editor Edmondson's reputed closeness to Dean Wannamaker, wondered if they had not endorsed a bright red herring. From the Endowment trustees came no answer to the students' telegram. Said Dean Wannamaker: "I like to see the students have some fun. They acted too hastily. They do not know exactly what...