Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal by editing a weekly magazine to be financed by the other three (TIME, Sept. 4). The practical brains of the group seemed to be a fifth figure, Board Chairman Virgil Vercingetorix McNitt of McNaught (McNitt) newspaper syndicate, onetime publisher of defunct McNaught's Magazine (like Plain Talk). But Mr. McNitt has been headed toward retirement lately, so last week when Messrs. Astor, Harriman & Moley announced further details about their weekly, observers concluded that if it did nothing else the subsidy would afford employment to a few unoccupied literati...
...magazine were Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, NRA Consumer Board chief, her brother William Averell Harriman, Union Pacific board chairman, and Virgil V. McNitt of McNaught Syndicate who was to be executive editor. The weekly will support and expound the New Deal's politics and economics "in plain square-toed English,'"' according to Publisher Astor who said he and Dr. Moley had been concocting the magazine for months. Each week since June Dr. Moley has been writing a rather stuffy syndicate article called "The State of the Union." For months the Administration has felt an acute need...
...Warner Baxter), who has a Rolls Royce and a yacht. When she learns that Eileen loves not Larry Blake, but a poor boy of the village named Jack Breen, Paddy does her loveable best to break the engagement. She snubs Blake, then flirts with him, finally tells him in plain terms why her sister is marrying him. All this has a good effect. After her father has been kicked to death by one of his horses, Eileen marries Jack Breen. Larry Blake decides that not Eileen but Paddy is his real acushla. persuades her that she loves him also...
...Hearst voluntarily did fortnight ago) consisting of five 8-hour days, with no deduction in pay, and to guarantee that publishers would not seek to reduce wages by paying their reporters on a space-rate basis. Last week in Cleveland one hundred men & women staff writers of the Plain Dealer, News and Press formed an Editorial Employes Association, voted to send a representative to the final code hearings in Washington. Their complaint: "Between exorbitant tolls of syndicates and press services and the unionized requirements of the mechanical trades, newspaper editorial employes have been the most notoriously exploited of all producer...
...special class for weak-eyed pupils in Jersey City, N. J., one Westinghouse installation geared to lamps giving an intensity of 30 footcandles* (four or five times the normal classroom light), has helped the handicapped students lift their work well above the standard of children in a neighboring, plain-style classroom. Similar results were obtained after an installation by Alabama Power Co. in Tuscumbia, Ala Ideal for the future and cheaper, urged Engineer Atwater, would be schoolhouses with no windows at all, with air-conditioning and light-conditioning units throughout...