Word: forthright
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...member of the board is a physician and a Gannon-Dr. James A., forthright brother of Fordham's forthright President Robert I. Gannon...
That still left him time for contemplation, and he had several subjects worth reviewing. There was, for one, the consideration that as a forthright critic of Churchill's war prosecution he has for two years served as whipping boy for the Prime Minister's parliamentary tempers, receiving rebukes distinguished for their sting, even in the House of Commons. He could also reflect that it is nearly three years since he held Government office, and that the British people are looking for new leaders. He could reflect that, like the great Cardinal Wolsey in 1530, he arrived...
...though steel allocation was a mess, he figured he could make sense of it, and he thought that his title carried enough authority to make his rulings stick. He went to work ably and thoroughly to find out where steel was going, why there wasn't enough. But forthright Reese Taylor reckoned without WPB's labyrinthine channels of authority. He did not know about the crew of second-rate dollar-a-year men-ex-salesmen and promoters whose chief duty as businessmen had been to act pleasant-which had grown so big that Washington called...
...Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters, it needed no careful study to evoke in plain men a forthright fighting emotion...
M.P.s were not unaware of the danger that, as "chief whip" of the onetime two-man Churchill party (Churchill was the other member), Bracken might crack down on criticism of the present Government. But no previous minister has been as forthright as Bracken in demanding and promising safeguards for a critical press. Said he: "The Ministry does not and will not try to control the press...