Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straightforward Joe Lyons broke with his party and resigned from Australia's Labor Cabinet, when inflation and debt repudiation, which he thought dishonest, were proposed as the way out of Australia's financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...
Doubts. Britain has made pledges before. Straightforward as this seemed, even Britons had doubts of its force and full intent. In a Foreign Office press conference next day one correspondent asked an ironic question: "Will the Government send Lord Runciman soon to Poland?" The London Times which often reflects the views of the British Government, found a multitude of reservations in the Chamberlain pledge: "The new obligation which this country has assumed does not bind Britain to defend every inch of the present frontiers of Poland. The key word in the declaration is not integrity but independence. The independence...
...from the Gospels-is that of Actor Pedro de Cordoba, good Roman Catholic. The reporter is Walter Connolly. Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Carr (Over the Hill) plays an old woman, selling palm leaves at a church, who guides the reporter back to Jerusalem. What he sees there he tells with straightforward reverence. His description of the Crucifixion is considerably less lurid than that of the French original (soon to be published in translation by Sheed & Ward). Excerpt from the NBC version...
...scholastically. Beyond this there is nothing. Methods of administration; the nature and amount of work required in return; the choosing of recipients--all these are solely in the hands of the University. Even to Harvard--traditionally terrified by anything smacking of government interference--such terms must appear generous and straightforward. Ninety-eight per cent of all the nation's schools eligible to receive aid, including Yale and even Radcliffe, have gladly accepted, and as yet there have been no signs of their being compromised by the gift...
...Princetonian recently-raises a large problem. In recent years courses in marriage have come more and more to be taken seriously, and Harvard's Sociology Department will soon decide whether or not to give such a course here. No longer merely a joke, the question is worth straightforward consideration...