Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva I made it plain the Japanese delegation had walked out of a special session on the Manchuria question with no intention of returning for that discussion. I cannot say whether Japan has withdrawn from the League. On that I am waiting word from Tokyo. My part is done...
...Institute of Arts. Director Wilhelm R. Valentiner gave the job to the new world's foremost muralist, robustious Diego Rivera, who came and swabbed for eight months, losing 125 Ib. (from 310) the while.* Last month for the first time Detroiters were let into the court whose plain white panels had been covered with Rivera's brilliant pigments...
...museum had "invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion. But hot criticism continued and last week the Detroit News swept up the whole job as "a slander to Detroit workingmen," advised returning the walls to plain white plaster...
John Cushing Fuess '35, of Andover, has been elected second assistant manager of the baseball team for the current season, it was announced last night, while Robinson Franklin Barker '35, of Dorchester, has been chosen to be assistant manager of the Junior Varsity. Norman Jacob Harris '35, of Jamaica Plain, will manage the House baseball teams...
...However plain it is to the rest of the world that Mooney was dealt with unjustly, California has not changed her mind. To her Mooney is still a murderer, a labor-agitator, an enemy of American Ideals and Institutions, and a danger to the sanctity of the home. Even if the April trial goes his way, there is no basis for supposing that he will be pardoned by the governor; the same forces that have prevented four other governors from doing this are still in the field; the Public Utilities still cherish a grudge against the man who fought them...