Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department dispatched notes to the effect that the U. S. would expect full payment Dec. 15 and that the President would recommend another debt commission to Congress. Nothing was said about the certain rejection by Congress of this recommendation. Secretary Stimson's language to Britain made it plain that the Hoover Administration considered her plight graver than France's or Belgium's, that revision by capacity-to-pay would be likeliest in her case...
...spacious lobbies were jammed with Senators and Representatives eager for a peep at the next President of the U. S. Up & down its thick-carpeted halls marched a throng of important people ranging from Bernard Mannes Baruch to Rear Admiral Cary Grayson. Through the street crowd of plain citizens Supreme Court Justice Brandeis shouldered his way inside. So did Minnesota's Governor Olson and General William Mitchell, retired Army Air Service critic. In Room No. 776 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was holding court...
...Evening News, creation of the late great President-Maker Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna, was until recently wholly owned by his grandsons Daniel, Carl & Mark. Two months ago it was merged with the politely Democratic Plain...
...left Scripps-Howard to edit the four-year-old Cleveland Times which momentarily challenged the Plain-Dealer's monopoly in the morning field. For lack of advertising the Times withered within a year, having been nothing more potent than an honest, genteel, ingenuous paper. Editor Martin became industrial commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce...
Herant J. Adzigian of Stoneham, Richard E. Alger of Middleboro, Frank A. Bautze of Jamaica Plain, Lawrence W. Boal of Waltham, Robert L. Bentley, 2nd of Arlington, Stephen A. Bixby of Boxford, Stanley J. Bogunieki of Westfield, Mansfield Branigan of Groton, Charles N. Breed, Jr. of Swampscott, Thomas J. Cavanagh, Jr. of Cambridge, Manley B. Cohen of Cambridge, Joseph S. Cotton of Turner's Falls, David C. Crawford of Watertown, John V. Curran of Cambridge, John D. Dorr of Bridgewater, Richard G. Dorr of Lancaster, Douglas P. Dryer of Waban, John F. Ducey, Jr. of Boston, Arthur F. Duffey...