Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorials from the New York Press, what "home folks" thought of the two New Yorkers. Assets & liabilities of each man were adroitly weighed. Spread upon the record were the Tammany scandals, Governor Roosevelt's relation to them and the comments of his neighbors on how he handled them. Plain was the assumption from the pamphlet that few New Yorkers had high regard for their Governor's public character or political courage...
...announcing his appointment of Professor Frankfurter to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, Governor Ely has stated what is well-known,--that Professor Frankfurter is heartily endorsed by such justices as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardoso. He also makes plain that the new appointee's efforts were enlisted in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti through a conviction that the defendants were innocent, and not because of any sympathy with their political creed...
...none will hesitate to class him as a marked liberal. His close association with the three liberal justices of the supreme bench would assure this, and his pronouncements and publications have made it plain. At a time when the social and economic structure is being continually altered, there is room for jurists who have an eye to the whole scene and are not bound too closely by tradition. Professor Frankfurter is an idealist and an enthusiast, who will not confine himself to more defense of the status quo; that he is endowed with the judicial temperament is to be doubted...
...through an anonymous spokesman, insinuations against the investigator's motives which set Manhattan editors tush-tushing. Though he declared he "resented" any speculation as to the part national politics would play in his decision in the Walker case, the fact that it would play a big part was plain...
...Hearst venture was a decided success. Other big publishers regarded it with envy. The New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Philadelphia Inquirer began offering comics space individually, but Hearst had no large scale competition until recently when two new organizations sprang up. One of these, known as Comic Section Advertising Corp. was formed last month to sell advertising in the comics of 32 newspapers (total circulation 1,100,000), biggest of which is the Detroit Free Press. The other was announced last week as the National Newspaper Group. It represents eleven large dailies of 5,200,000 circulation...