Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Founded by Missouri Apple Grower Paul C. Stark (father of the "victory garden" idea during World War II), the N.C.C.C.I, has a straightforward message: Washington should do its best to check inflation, but it is clearly up to the rest of the nation to help out with self-restraint. On that point Dwight Eisenhower fully agreed with Apple Grower Stark. Said Ike at his midweek press conference: "Government, no matter what its policies, cannot, of itself, make certain of the soundness of the dollar . . . There must be statesmanlike action, both by business and by labor...
United Auto Workers Organizer John Watkins, for eleven years (1942-53) an official of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, knew just what he would and would not tell the House Un-American Activities Committee when he appeared before it on April 29, 1954. A witness of straightforward manner, he testified that he had never been a card-carrying Communist. But he admitted that from 1942 to 1947 he had cooperated with Communists "to such a degree that some persons may honestly believe that I was a member of the party." He agreed to answer all questions about his own participation...
Friendly Association. Then in straightforward Aussie fashion he laid it on the board: "We have been at war with each other, and feelings in Australia were strong and bitter. But we participated in negotiations for peace without any idea of penalties or reparations. I say this merely to establish it in your minds. In spite of events ten years ago, we have not approached Japan in a spirit of hatred or unpleasantness. Friendly association is our watchword...
Oppenheimer outlined three major duties of the power, or policy-making, element of society. The first was to insure that in this complex world people do not get the impression, through propaganda, that everything is simple and straightforward...
...East Riding folk refuse to do the same, and gossip begins to sputter. Roger and Ida resolve to stay out of each other's way, but it is a promise made between a magnet and a nail. With Ida at his side, a shaken but straightforward Roger deals Louisa a crushing blow: "It seems as if her and me can't help it, Lou, can't keep apart, we shall have...