Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your issue of Aug. 27 connects me with "Stevens-Duryea." My thanks for your generosity but I have no desire to steal my brother's thunder. I had no direct part in S-D cars but consider myself their grandfather. I took my brother J. Frank from the farm twice and pushed him from shop to shop until he was drawing toolmaker wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company?the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were...
...necessary to make bedfellows of the founders of ALL, and no commonplace, ready-made bed would hold them. The nature of ALL, as its president Jouett Shouse announced it, was to parallel the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment: to take a definite stand on particular issues, to take no direct part in elections, to organize and represent before Congress the interests of homeowners, farmers, labor, savings depositors, bondholders and stockholders...
...League Commission submitted a minority report, declared that 2,000 or even more mercenaries from abroad could not keep order during the plebiscite. In the Saar Landesrat, a parliament without powers, deputies of the so-called German Front rose in a body last week and marched out as a direct affront to President Knox. They accused him of permitting French papers in the Saar "to defame and vilify the late President von Hindenburg." Not without foundation, this charge referred to an item in the SaarbrÜcken Volksstimme which closed its report of the Feldmarschall's burial thus: "We will...
...hands of Oil Administrator Ickes. But last week, none too certain of his legal rights, the best Mr. Ickes could do was to start a test case against Eason Oil Co. of Enid. Okla. He charged the Oklahomans with having drilled three wells in Crescent Pool in direct contradiction to the plan approved by his Petroleum Administration...
...hides off the market until they could be absorbed. Because this plan left the market with a surplus overhanging, hide prices hardly stirred off bottom. Last week it was announced that beginning Sept. 5 Federal Surplus Relief Corp. would buy all hides from Government cattle, eventually distribute them in direct relief as shoes and other leather goods. Hide prices proceeded to rally smartly...