Word: outright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate a $3,860,000,000, "self-liquidating" public works program on a revolving fund basis outside the Budget. This sweeping proposal threw the whole Relief issue...
...Richman Foundation lends without interest to the solvent employes, makes outright gifts to the financially distressed. From it $10 a week is paid to employes on sick leave. Women employes get ten weeks off at $10 a week to have their babies...
Urbane Parisians, who have long 'done most of their newspaper reading between the lines, suspected last week that the Rome-Berlin newspapers would be made to behave rather than be suppressed, but that before long the Rightist Premier may suppress outright the Communist dailies L'Humanite and Ce Soir...
Present policy of the Yugoslav Government is to remain neutral. Yugoslavs know well that acceptance of the Dictators' proposals that she sign up with them m the anti-Comintern Pact almost inevitably means the end of independence, but that outright rejection of any and all alliances might be equally disastrous. Noteworthy it was last week that Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, after chatting for several days with Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano in Venice, traveled to Berlin to see Führer Adolf Hitler. Then he went back home, announced proudly he had "signed nothing...
...terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...