Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Washington immediately upon his resignation as financial and executive adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury, O. M. W. Sprague, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, arrived in Boston late last evening, it was revealed early today, and is understood to have gone direct to the Business School, spending the night at the home of Wallace B. Donham '99, Dean of the School. He left New York early in the afternoon, it is believed, coming up on the train with Walter Lippmann '10, who spoke to a small gathering at Kirkland House last night. Lippmann, who spent...
These things seriously worried Messrs. Woodin, Black and Harrison who were concerned about the Government's credit, who knew that if the Government could no longer sell bonds there was no way of financing its new expenditures except direct inflation. No small decision did the President have to make, for his advisers were drawn in different directions.* He well knew that Harvard Professor O. M. W. Sprague, onetime adviser to the Bank of England who had come over last spring to act as his adviser, was considering resigning as a protest against the policies afoot, that financiers in London...
...court last week turned on the pivots of honor, patriotism and Japanese devotion to the Divine Emperor. One by one the six assassins had testified that in slaying Premier Ki Inukai, a clever politician known throughout Japan as "The Old Fox," they acted "to bring the Emperor into more direct control of the Government." They also claimed that the assassination was a protest against the "shameful naval ratio" of 5-5-3 provided in existing treaties for the U. S., Britain and Japan-the assassins contending that it ought to be 5-5-5. Surely such an assassination...
...much eye-wash, on the precedence of God before the State was wholly antithetical to Bolshevik ideals. Professing these principles it is no great wonder that the Revolution swirled angrily over Protestantism and sucked away its foundations, more by the power of what is loosely termed "propaganda" than by direct persecution. But whatever the means employed, the outcome was never in doubt. One or the other had to give way, and the Kremlin held all the aces...
...observers will use 14 spectrographs and ten direct cameras to record the appearance of the meteors. In order to photograph their spectra, special red plates will be used...