Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brass Tacks was comparatively dowdy in dress. It had a plain red-bordered cover bearing its table of contents. Typography was commonplace. Prime feature of Brass Tacks was the first instalment of Oklahoma Oilman Ernest Whitworth Marland's story of how he lost control of rich Marland Oil Co. to the "money trust," by which he meant J. P. Morgan...
...form Plain Talk is currently being published in Washington by Morris A. Bealle, who bought the name from the original publishers after they let the magazine die two years...
...ideal army chaplain and the ideal parish priest" by Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Father Duffy: "If anybody sticks a pin into me, he'll find that I'm very American, very Irish and very Catholic, but if he'll leave me alone. I'm just plain human." Died. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins. 63, international lawyer of Washington, D. C.; in Washington. He and his father, Thomas S. Hopkins, legally advised and directed many a Latin-American revolution. Among their clients: Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Adolfo de la Huerta, the republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan...
...Saturday withdrawing had subsided. Like all large and sound banking institutions, Chicago's had made plain that the money was there and could be had for the asking. In First National, ruddy, crinkly-faced President Melvin Alvah Traylor made two speeches before crowds of clients, one speech in the savings department, another in the checking department. He explained that his bank had passed through the Chicago Fire (1871) and weathered it; had gone through other Depressions and weathered them; would pass through this Depression. Money was on hand for each & every depositor who wanted his share. The crowds dispersed...
...plain" bathroom fixture is hard to get. The three leading manufacturers (Standard Sanitary, Crane, Kohler) now create in five main art periods: i) the heavy "masculine" Renaissance; 2) the light "feminine" periods such as 18th Century, Empire, Directoire; 3) the neoclassic; 4) the Colonial; 5) the modernistic. Standard Sanitary emphasizes the neoclassic; Crane the Renaissance; Kohler the "Metropolitan," a modernistic style which, according to an exposition salesman, "means as much as Standard's neo-classic." But all three master plumbers plumb in all periods...