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...forthright Frenchmen in London last week talked His Majesty's Government into what may well prove Britain's most momentous decision since...
...were headlines for the columns of the Boston "Advertiser" front page. The Boston "Globe," with gentlemanly discretion, intimated that the convention had not been highly in favor of the Curley scheme thus: "Mayors Shy On Big Work Loans." "84 Communities Would Consider If U. S. Pays Half." Courageous and forthright was the Boston "Sunday Herald." "Mayors Reject Curley's $100,000,000 Housing Proposals," it said...
Less lyric than his fellow-poet, Auden writes with more explicit scorn of "the old gang," dedicates his book with the forthright sentiment...
...Gentlemen. Very few officials in Washington do not like General Johnson. Erratic they have found him, sometimes unstable in his decisions, nearly always so overworked during the past year that he was in a constant state of irritation, but withal honest, forthright, energetic. Those who would welcome his departure do so only because if he stays they see no way of: 1) altering NRA policies; 2) changing NRA from a melodrama starring Hugh S. Johnson to a businesslike administration of recovery measures. Last week it was learned that the President had. as a reward of merit, raised the salary...
...forthright and fresh if his latest music is not. Strauss's enemies feed on his personal shortcomings. His conceit, they say, is enormous. To keep him in Vienna for four months a year, Austria gave him the Belvedere Palace, once occupied by the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand.* Visitors complain that to enter and see the composer they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned...