Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 4 issue of TIME your discussion of Plain Talk magazine recalls a real journalistic firebrand, Geoffrey Dell Eaton, who founded it, and died June...
...Daily and his editorials tearing down administrative and personal actions on the campus were nothing short of libel. He got a job with the Detroit News, then the Detroit Times, and the Morning Telegraph (New York), and ended up on the A. P. news staff. In 1927 he founded Plain Talk after having written a successful novel called Backfurrow...
...most of the work on Plain Talk and made it a magazine considerably ahead of its time. He died of heart disease in St. Marks Hospital, New York...
Thus was a prime issue, not in either party's platform, forged for the campaign. Speaker Garner, stumping as the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, could set himself up as the friend of the Masses against the Classes. He could tell plain, unthinking, debt-ridden voters at the cross-roads that he had put through a bill for their relief only to have it killed by a coldhearted, opinionated Republican President. President Hoover, on the other hand, would go before the country as the implacable defender of the people against a disaster inherent in Democratic doctrine. Some citizens might comprehend...
...Federal management. If there should be a surplus after these charges, bondholders will receive higher interest. For the next five years interest will be paid in scrip which will receive 5% interest in cash. Until full interest is paid, a bondholders' committee will manage the road. It was made plain last week that all bondholders must approve of the plan, that recalcitrant holders may not expect special profits such as accrued to the St. Louis Southwestern holdouts. The plan bears the endorsements of the system's bankers (Dillon, Read, Chase Harris Forbes, J. & W. Seligman, Chemical Bank & Trust...