Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Speaker of the House has been most outspoken on occasions without number, and he has some very positive views on most matters, notably such important signposts on the nation's economic course as taxation, finance, and the tariff. Everybody who has followed events in the last dozen Congresses is perfectly aware of his position...
...Britain, France and Italy made a five-point proposal for ending hostilities at Shanghai. Japan, on the advice of Prince Saionji, rejected it. Immediately anti-Japanese sentiment abroad began to crystallize. The U. S. Press had been outspoken from the first. The British Press now joined in. In Athens a Greek crowd threw rocks at the Japanese Legation. The Belgian Labor Party filed an official plaint. The Archbishops of Canter bury and York denounced the bombing of Chapei. Members of the Japanese Cabinet, alarmed, began to give interviews to foreign correspondents, in which they in sisted that their "misunderstood," that...
Advocacy of the League blighted the end of the Wilson Administration. It helped defeat James Middleton Cox in 1920. Even today a political belief persists that no outspoken friend of the League can sit in the White House. But as a practical issue the League is so moribund that few persons bothered to associate Mr. Baker with it until he doggedly championed U. S. entry last month. Well aware of the damage it can do parties and politicians he hastened to lay its ghost...
...last twelve years, and we shall not yield an inch." Hitler, on the other hand, has apparently decided that the Nazi rise to power must be altogether gentle and that some sort of modification of policy must precede that accord with the present government which Chancellor Bruening's outspoken denunciations of Dec. 8 have, on the face of the matter, forced him to consider seriously...
...married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., became a partner, like his brother Felix, when he emigrated to the U. S. in 1902. He was a chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, nurtured it as a member of its first board. He became its most outspoken critic in 1929 for failing to hold clown inflation, and, last year, its historian. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Owen D. Young's: "Commercial banking, both at home and abroad, had no leader of greater skill or understanding." Died. William Vallandigham Kelley, 70, board chairman...