Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salary of $4,000 or $5,000 a year.) Her duties will be partly taken over by Mrs. Coolidge's private secretary, Miss Mary Randolph of Virginia, and partly by the State Department under the supervision of Third Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright; Charles Lee Cooke having direct charge of sending all official invitations...
...Government had been carrying the interest on billions of dollars owing to the American people, that Britain had made enormous contribution by recognizing her liabilities and putting her finances in order to bring about the stability of the world. It was unfortunate that countries which had spurned direct taxation were being called upon to make good the resultant depreciation of their currencies, which, in turn, had contributed to the increase of their difficulties and decrease of their strength. But this was a lesson which should not be escaped by resort to debt cancellation...
House of Commons. The budget (TIME, May 11) received its third reading and was sent to the House of Lords* During debate Mr. Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, claimed that he had relieved the obligation of the direct taxpayer without creating new burdens...
...unpalatable on Swedenborg's tongue. He sought, like Paracelsus, the infinite and the spiritual ; and neither geometrical, nor physical, nor metaphysical principles led him to them. But they must be found. And so to work on a new path. Then, in 1745, "heaven was opened to him" by direct spiritual revelation from...
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School was one of a great army of commencement orators that went into action last week. Of all the direct hits made, none was more squarely centred than his. At the University of Indiana, he drew an analogy between the great religious foundations of the Middle Ages and the great educational foundations of today, including this feature...