Word: overtness
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...Moscow the statesmen of Soviet Russia presumably feel that in declaring the entire agreement and its arbitral structure void they acted in a spirit of goodwill, fairdealing and reasonable interpretation. Their principal overt grudge against Lena for the past several years has been that her mining camps were "centers of counterrevolution and nests of British spies"-a. charge frequently hurled in the Moscow press...
...persistently impartial tone of press and public opinion in the U. S. as India's Nationalist troubles continue. Greatly they grieved for "gross inaccuracies, obvious misinterpretations" in U. S. news stories.* Dr. Thompson's little pamphlet, issued last week was one of Britain's first overt efforts to arouse sympathy for England's cause in India...
...International Banding Machine Co. who together make most of the seven billion bands used each year on the country's seven billion cigars. Invoking the mighty aid of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and the Clayton Act, Messrs. Schlegel and Prochaska allege no less than 20 "overt acts" in restraint of the cigar band trade...
...Litt.D., LL.D., President of Yale University. Like many another orator of the day, he decried U. S. chauvinism, legal instability, corruption. But chiefly he indicted U. S. citizens, not their laws or leaders. Excerpt: "It is not primarily faithlessness to public trust, nor corruption in its more overt forms, with which we are menaced. . . . It is rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys as the dominating forces in our national life. . . . Nor is it a negligible circumstance that public opinion is at times...
...since 1920 when Alexander Mitchell Palmer was attorney general of the U. S. has the Federal Government hunted Reds. Because overt radical agitation and the economic condition of the nation follow the same cycle. Communist leaders in the last fat prosperous decade have starved politically out of public sight. The last lean year has brought them suddenly to the surface, to gorge themselves on hard times, to feast on unemployment, to stage Red demonstrations throughout the land. Alarmed by the spectre of radical resurgence, the House of Representatives last week voted (210-to-18) to start a Red hunt...