Word: tactlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stanley Baldwin appears to have made a most excellent batch of his brief careers as Prime Minister. Before he assumed the office, he lost many American well-wishers by a tactless remark about the American attitude in regard to the British war debt. At home he has failed to start British business on the up-swing toward prosperity. His foreign policy has failed to reopen foreign markets; his internal fiscal policy has taxed England white in order to bring English exchange to par to take advantage of that American inflation which has not yet occurred; and as a last resource...
...have gained popularity with the Mormon farmers thereby. Frank R. Kent, correspondent of The Sun (Baltimore), one of the ablest and certainly the most fearless of the journalists accompanying the Presidential party, recorded, as few other correspondents did, that the President smoked cigarettes while playing, which was regarded as tactless, because the Mormons are strongly opposed to the use of tobacco. The President spoke in the Mormon Tabernacle on taxation...
Mussolini has been tactless in several instances. On the occasion of the visit of the British Royalties the Fascist hymn was played with the English and Italian national anthems, an award of royal honor to Mussolini that surprised Queen Mary and annoyed the King of Italy. Mussolini's Minister of Finance referred to his appointment " by Mussolini," although it is the royal prerogative to appoint Ministers. The Minister of Education, Signor Gentile, announced that he had become converted from Liberalism to Fascism. Liberal leaders pointed out that Gentile had never been a member of their Party and could...
...iron. Pig iron doesn't relish its limitations. It would like nothing better than an infusion of tungsten. And it suffers when it is told to stay pig. Mr. Blake refers particularly to Dartmouth, which, since it has launched upon a career of excellence, has been quite tactless in its expulsions. Nearly 300 Sophomores and Juniors, as well as Freshmen, were expelled last midyear. "It was pitiful," says Mr. Blake, "to see the distress. Some were from the far West and were sent off in the midst of a severe winter." And he ends, or rather he begins...
...press,--was infringed. No matter what the students choose to print, faculty censorship should not be resorted to. Suppression by government is justifiable only on grounds of public emergency. In the universities, no consideration whatsoever ought to take precedence over the unrestricted expression of the students, ill-advised or tactless...