Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding 'use-fault' of the design is its failure to declare the amount in plain characters...
John James Ryan, Jr. '33, of Jamaica Plain, has been selected to give the key-note speech for Harvard at the Student Convention on National Political Issues for 1932, which will be held at Princeton, on April 28 and 29. He will speak on "The Republican Idea." The University of Virginia delegate will put forward "The Democratic Idea...
...Rhode Island; Charles Sedgwick Minot Fellowship, Louis Zetzel 2M, of Chelsea; James Jackson Cabot Fellowships, H. L. Kozol 2M, of Brookline and Benjamin Alexander 2M, of Dorchester; DeLamar Research Fellowships, L. F. Bushnell 3M, of Danville, Illinios, Rolf Lium 3M, of Northfield, Minnesota, D. J. Mullane 2M, of Jamaica Plain, D. G. Friend 1M, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and I. H. Saxe 1M, of Passaic, New Jersey...
...tradition against direct Federal taxes on everybody. Any wealthy man who agitated for a sales tax was suspected of trying to wriggle out of income taxes. Chief sponsor for the current Sales Tax was a wealthy capitalist, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers attempted to convince their poor plain readers that such an impost was good for them. Mr. Hearst sent a congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported...
...record is clear. Plain enough to be read by any voter who takes the trouble to keep in touch with things governmental. Garner is pretty consistent and he doesn't pussyfoot. He doesn't pussyfoot on the League of Nations. He doesn't pussyfoot on the war debts. He doesn't pussyfoot on taxation, on which his views are those of the great mass of the common people. He doesn't pussyfoot on anything...