Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been thrown at our naval officers; it has even reached our greatest presidents. Lincoln, bearing the troubles of a great war upon his shoulders, was mercilessly reviled; Grant was attacked; McKinley, at the crisis of the Spanish War, was fiercely slandered by the papers. Today Theodore Roosevelt, fearless and straightforward, is being criticised on all sides...
...many of these districts there are issues at stake peculiar to the community, which will be decided by the result of the voting tomorrow. In not a few communities, unfortunately, contests will be decided between factions representing government by boss rule on the one hand, and by clean, straightforward, progressive men on the other. Whatever a man's political affiliation, these questions are of greater importance than merely partisan distinctions. Those men in the University who are registered voters are given every chance to make use of their privilege, as all cuts from College recitations are excused, provided notice...
...over, but their memory will long be with us. He has summed up and placed before us in a clear and tangible form the problems which, in a general sort of way, have long been foremost in our minds. He has touched every side of life in a straightforward and manly way, adding by his won personality an irresistible charm to the breadth of his absorbing subject. For an organized society he has made a special appeal, and we of Harvard can appreciate his earnest deprecation of its fragmentary nature. We have long appreciated it, as the CRIMSON has already...
...with the result that the corporation sent Senators and Representatives to Congress, who in return, appointed their office-holders in such a way that every section had a feudal chief. When a question arose, passes and tickets were sent to these chiefs, who came to Concord to smother the straightforward, true politician...
...opportunity to hear Dr. Allen speak on municipal reform in the Union last evening. Those who were fortunate enough to be present heard a frank and sincere statement of what can be done practically to solve the burning municipal problem. There was no theory, no meaningless generalizations; simply a straightforward talk from a man, who, not content with the conclusion that municipal government is a failure, is working from the bottom up, by determining the defects that make possible political corruption in our cities...