Word: forthright
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...Ship Subsidy, substituting a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers for the current indirect and unsavory system of padded ocean-mail contracts. To expand the U. S. merchant marine, the Government will pay up to half the cost of building a ship, lend the operator half of the remainder, pay him an operating subsidy based on the difference between U. S. and foreign costs...
Meanwhile South Africa and Australia, as soon as His Majesty's Governments in these dominions were privately advised of what His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom were about to do last week, promptly disassociated themselves from the impending move. At Capetown forthright General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, South African Premier, boomed: "If other nations like the United Kingdom and France are not prepared to face the possible outcome of continuing League Sanctions against Italy, that does not affect South Africa, which intends to support the League to the last! If the League now collapses, South Africa...
Jesse Jones rejected this plan last week in what even for that forthright Texan was blunt language. Banker Roosevelt's plan, he said, would make the road "a pawn, subject to abuses and manipulations that should not be tolerated...
...Harriman, a onetime Louisville belle named Grace Carley, married a broker cousin of the late Railroader Edward H. Harriman 45 years ago, has since been a prominent Manhattan socialite. A large, determined, forthright lady, Mrs. Harriman thinks it is a shame that millions of U. S. dollars are exported for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes and other foreign lotteries when they might be kept at home. People who agree with her to the extent of paying $1 to join her Conference automatically become eligible to enter a "Selection Sweepstakes." Here they are called upon to display their skill and judgment...
...their fluid daubings could be fittingly reproduced in silk and wool. Her first convert, five years ago, was Georges Rouault, onetime apprentice in a stained-glass factory. But the painters were simple to manage compared to the weavers. Those sensible artisans, with six centuries of conventional design and solid, forthright colors behind them, threw up their hands in horror at Rouault's grotesque figures and great splashings of brick red and blatant blue. "Mais non!" cried they. "We will not soil our looms." Art was only art, however, and a living was a living. In the cottages...