Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stage Two. "In my inaugural," said President Roosevelt. ''I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends on paying less than living wages has any right to continue. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry: by workers I mean all workers-the white-collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level -I mean the wages...
Among U. S. tourists massed eagerly outside the Palace of the President of France one day last week was a little woman in a simple summer frock. Severely a Paris gendarme told her to move on. Obediently she moved. "Imbecile!" hissed a plain clothes agent of the Sûreté Generale at the startled gendarme. "C'est Madame Straus...
...plain man-in-the-pew nor even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
...fall for miles & miles. Last week new testimony came from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated a stop watch. Still falling, at 144 m.p.h., he took time to dry his goggles. As his body dropped into denser atmosphere, its speed was slowed to about 120 m.p.h...
...good deal of thought and some lip service to Reform. President Richard Whitney from time to time made footling pleas that all companies listed on the Big Board issue in the interest of their shareholders honest, complete and accurate statements. Many an offending concern indifferently shrugged its shoulders, the plain implication being that Mr. Whitney would do well to mind his own business. Last week such reactions underwent a violent change. For Mr. Whitney, upon recommendation of the List Committee, had ordered that the common and preferred stock of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. be stricken from the trading list...