Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family. John writes sports for the New York Times, and knows all once a week on radio's Information Please; Leo writes aviation for the Times; Larry works in the Manhattan Surrogate's office; Helen Kieran Reilly writes detective stories. And there is James M. Kieran, moody, outspoken, firm in his leftish ways, who until last week was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's press secretary at $5,400 per year...
What made the Governor mad were the outspoken criticisms of New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Interior Secretary Ickes, President Roosevelt-who, without naming names, charged that Ohio's State Government was responsible for Cleveland's scandalous relief situation (TIME...
...bitterly outspoken against censorship were Britain's publishers in the first weeks of the war that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to separate censorship from the Ministry of Information, reorganize both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point out the censor's errors. Parisians are still chuckling over a critical essay: titled "Censure et Propa-gande" that appeared lately in L'Europe Nouvelle. The whole article was a blank, and bore the legend: "Censure...
...last week-of all weeks-with every one expecting Adolf Hitler's death rain to begin momentarily, perhaps from closer bases in The Netherlands, out spoke six-foot Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, one of Britain's most outspoken and respected scientists. He saw Madrid and Barcelona bombed. Predicting indiscriminate bombing if and when the bombers come, in London last week he said...
Peppy, pottering Dr. Herbert Putnam, 78, longtime head of the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian...