Word: forthrightness
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Willkie. In Manhattan Wendell Willkie made the first announcement of his plans: a forthcoming trip to England. But he had more to say. In characteristically forthright words he reminded and reassured many a fearful citizen that democracy could go into war-harness with its eyes open and its head clear...
President of the Grolier Club is tall, forthright, weathered Harry Twyford Peters, who "works for a living" as a coal merchant, but whose real business is more varied. He is 1) co-Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds, one of the foremost U. S. hunt clubs; 2) leading U. S. authority on fox hunting, author of Just Hunting (1936); 3) inspirer of the national enthusiasm for Currier & Ives, owner of some 15,000 of their prints, author of four scholarly tomes on antique U. S. lithographs; 4) owner of perhaps the world's best private library of sporting books...
Admittedly the most effective speaker in England after Winston Churchill, Priestley left the English air waves amid a hubbub of press excitement. London papers suggested that he had been squeezed into silence by pressure from Whitehall, which was, they said, alarmed at his forthright pleas for more democracy in Britain. Declared the New Statesman: "He tells us he was not stopped. But . . . that these broadcasts should stop is a national calamity which may matter more than Dakar...
Republican Taft. The plump, crisply bobbed, forthright wife of Ohio's also-ran, Robert A. Taft: "We in America are fortunate to be able to change horses, to change from one that is floundering . . . to one that will carry us safely. . . . We must choose between a centralized government in Washington or a government by the people; between debts and deficits or a future for our children; between evasion of the Constitution or loyal observance to it; between staying out of war or being pushed into...
...Oregonian's cried scornfully: "A fine set of knaves to be accusing the press of misuse of its freedom!" Said Thomas Radcliffe Hutton of the Binghamton Press in Mr. Flynn's home State: "... a political blob of which Jim Farley never would have been guilty." Said the forthright Seattle Times, reverting to old-fashioned style in a bold Gothic headline: "You lie, Mr. Flynn...