Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City voters went to the polls last week to vote in a primary election. One hoodlum was shot to death, a score were slugged and when the ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation's No. 1 city been so thoroughly scrambled...
...fumbled finances. Bankers were summoned to the Governor's home to talk about loans. President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange was pumped to see if he was bluffing about moving to New Jersey (TIME, Sept. 25). If Mr. Whitney was not bluffing it was plain that the tax schemes cooked up by bumbling Mayor O'Brien and his adviser, Samuel Untermyer, threatened Manhattan with a major economic calamity. To escape the Mayor's new 4?-a-share stock transfer tax and 5% levy on brokers' gross income, not only the Stock Exchange...
Libraries, Should the commuters be assigned to the various House libraries? It seems plain, first of all, that it would not be fair to give them free use of the libraries. For their operation is made possible only by students who pay for rather expensive rooms. It would be necessary to charge an annual fee for this privilege. Phillips Brooks House officials predict that the number of commuters who would take advantage of this privilege would not be large. This number would be assigned among the seven Houses. It seems unlikely that the presence of these outside students...
General Johnson had waded into deeper & deeper water on the collective bargaining clause of the law. NRA committee efforts to get President Roosevelt to issue a public interpretation of famed Section 7 (a) failed when the President declared that the collective bargaining clause was written in plain English and required no interpretation...
...would strongly resemble a fat Jewish hausfrau were it not for her close-cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain American, she likes people, is always ac- cessible to strangers. She confesses to inertia and a poor memory. An omnivorous reader, she was haunted in early life by the fear that some day she would have nothing left to read; nowadays she no longer worries about it. Though she lives...