Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Played by Wladimir Sokoloff of the Moscow Art Theatre, the Jew provides good facial expressions when he helps the German (Ernst Busch) with his mending; good sounds when he bellows wordlessly to warn his comrades of a gas attack. Photographed with an eye to symbolism, Hell on Earth is outspoken propaganda when it ends with the question: "Where are the five men going?'' A caption answers: "To fight all IM- PERIALISTIC WARS...
...messed up the AAA. Mr. Peek was reported to have told friends that: 1) either he or Mr. Frank would have to go; 2) he would be ready to appear at any time Congress wanted to investigate the AAA, the last a threat which in view of his outspoken nature no one in the Administration relished...
...Economics department for especial criticism. Such was not the editorial's intent, it was the department of History which gave Harvard's tutorial system birth; the division of History, Government, and Economics has taken the lead in encouraging its growth: today, the officers of this division are the most outspoken opponents of the movement to halt that growth, even temporarily, by financial restriction. It is clear that no sensible man can overlook this record. But it is equally clear that he cannot overlook the significance of the intrusion of a contrary note into the discussions of this particular department...
Sprague has been outspoken in his criticism of the administration, reputedly characterizing the President as politically minded instead of economically minded. He is said to have rated Professor Warren, the gold program spon- sor, as a "good agricultural economist...
...patriotic blacksmiths slain every outspoken critic of NRA throughout the land last week, the slaughter would have been terrific. A definite, increasingly voluble reaction had set in against the Blue Eagle. The "dead cats" which Administrator Johnson had predicted would "fill the air" when NRA hit its stride, were flying thick & fast, and some of them were very dead cats indeed...