Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More "Plain Talk...
...Ambassador Gibson was reading the Hoover plan to the assembled delegates at the Disarmament Conference. The President had made his proposal as a bold and radical attempt to galvanize the conference into action after five months of fumbling. Its reception by the Conference was only lukewarm. But plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if the Conference rejected the U. S. proposal and then adjourned, the U. S. door would be slammed upon all European powers who might come to Washington seeking reduction of their War Debts because of hard times. The President's plan meant...
...Manhattan publishers have decided that Public Discontent is the topic of the day. Simultaneously this week appeared two magazines of the straight-from-the-shoulder, "let's-get-down-to-cold-facts" type. Each magazine is remotely related to the original Plain Talk* One, issued by H. K. Fly Co., publisher of old Plain Talk, is named Brass Tacks. The other is National Spotlight, published by George T. Delacorte Jr., edited by muckraking Walter W. Liggett, onetime editor of Plain Talk. Apparently on the theory that the reading public is like a sick man who enjoys talk about his ailments...
...coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses." Mr. Smith also supplied the country with a full-length platform on debt revision, pub lic works, taxation, economy, Prohibition. He was vividly acclaimed for straight thinking, plain speaking. As his popularity rose, he heard on all sides that he and he alone could win the election. The demand for his nomination reached a climax fort night ago when the potent Scripps-Howard papers vehemently demanded: "Give us Alfred E. Smith...
Also to be dickered with was Tammany Hall's bloc of some 40 uncommitted votes which might decide a close nomination. Their price was plain: for Roosevelt if he could win quickly and James John Walker were not removed by him as Mayor; against him if Smith proved that he could really hold the line and supply a good compromise candidate. The only favorite son who seemed available for whatever backroom conference is called to break a deadlock was Maryland's Governor Ritchie. Friendly with Governor Roosevelt, he was liked by the Brown Derby. Mark Sullivan, oldtime convention observer, predicted...