Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dole!" groaned conservative citizens last November when it was announced that Relief Administrator Hopkins would put 4,000,000 unemployed on direct Federal payrolls to do civil works. The awful example of Great Britain's dole army was conjured. Once on, the unemployed could never be taken off the Dole, said the prophets. There would be riots, bloodshed, insurrection. Administrator Hopkins heeded not at all. By December he had hired his 4,000,000 men. In mid-February, still heedless of the conservatives' lugubrious prophecy, he began to fire them again, promising to extinguish...
...Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...service) he declared: "When prices go up, business goes down. . . . There is nobody who can pay the increased prices except our own people; and if they have not the price demanded they simply don't buy. But this is all too simple for the great economic minds that direct our affairs. .. . ". . . We are making a part of everything we use and from this nucleus we can readily expand to take care of any or all of our requirements, if necessary. . . . "When wages are increased and prices held down, it simply compels the heads of concerns to work harder. . . . Increasing...
...earned only $1,100,000. Since then it has reported deficits. Immediate cause for last week's bankruptcy was $2,088,000 in bank loans long overdue. The receiver talked of selling the company to another motormaker, but Herbert Henry Franklin's friends hoped against hope that direct Government loans to industry might yet save the concern for the lonely, crusty bachelor of 68 whose sole interests are air-cooled cars and good roads to run them...
...family go about their varied affairs unheeding his distress. Fay Bainter, as the mother, is particularly good. Her acting leaves little to be desired, save perhaps by those who would rather watch homely emotions play over a more beautiful countenance. Her particular preoccupation is going to Hollywood to direct the picture which a book she had written, had inspired...