Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like Newton Diehl Baker the week before, turned thumbs down on the League of Nations. Plain to all now was the fact that Democratic candidates for the Presidency were desperately anxious to let this ghostly old issue lie buried in its political grave throughout...
...banker or merchant had lent $20,000 to Lenox, Mass, (pop.: 2,895) in its hour of need last week, few persons far from that fashionable little summer resort would have heard about it. But because the lender was a plain newspaper reporter, member of a traditionally underpaid and improvident profession, he became news everywhere. He was Walter Everett Lewis, 64, for 25 years Lenox correspondent of the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle...
William Benjamin Bacon of Jamaica Plain...
...Louis Israel Dublin, statistician for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., discovered by investigating 38,269 Eastern college graduates that Phi Beta Kappa men and honor students live longer than athletes and plain graduates...
...industrial nations the United States is best above to initiate a movement to reduce tariffs by agreement. Great Britain, absorbed by her present emergency, is turning, for the time being at least, in the direction of protection. Germany can do little, because France more than once has made it plain that she will use her political and financial power to veto attempts by Germany to secure markets through lower tariffs. If there any prospect that the United States will abandon its philosophy of extreme protectionism? Perhaps it is unreasonable to expect most voters to see the connection between commercial policies...