Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the public by the sale of its bonds, debentures, short-term notes. R. F. C. securities will be underwritten by the U. S. Government. Much depends upon this public sale which Wall Street envisages as a sort of Liberty Loan drive. President Hoover hopes that plain citizens, rather than banks and trusts, will be heavy investors. To pave the way for this great flotation the Fed eral Reserve has already started pumping money out into the market to create the necessary buying power. Last week in New York it whittled down its buying rates for bankers' acceptances...
...spread long ago to the U. S., was fanned when curious newshawks discovered that the late President Wilson, stalwart Fletcherite, was wont to read him into the small hours in the Presidential bed. No extremist, no strainer after gruesome effects or heart-clutching surprises, Author Fletcher tells quietly a plain and fairly plausible tale, introduces no supermen, no omniscient gods of the crime world. If you are tired of Sherlock Holmeses and their attendant Watsons you may find Author Fletcher's detectives a pleasant change...
...Democratic Party-retorted: "Ogden Mills is talking through his hat! If he knows what the Demo-cratic tax program is, then I wish he'd tell me!" Also without ado, Speaker Garner summoned Floor Leader Rainey, Congressman Collier and Senator Harrison to his office and in good plain plainsman's language, for two and one-half hours, told them there was yet no Democratic tax plan and would not be before the end of the month. The Hope of the Democratic Party then made a terse announcement of his own: Whether the Republicans liked...
...plain fact the University's "regularly followed principle" is to cancel specific gifts by increasing appropriations to other departments. Practically, it divides its general funds in accordance with greatest need. That is the natural outcome of the logical insoluble contradiction between the claims of general University welfare and the moral claims of those who give unrestricted funds...
Business has not been too good for Hershey Chocolate Corp. During the first nine months of 1931 its sales of chocolate bars (plain and nutty), of chocolate kisses, , cocoa, candy coating chocolate syrup and Cocoa-Milk beverage, were around 25% less than during the same period of 1930. The figures were $23,459,130 against $29,851,069. Nor has the cherubic Hershey Trade Mark (see cut) had less reason than usual to symbolize smilingly Health, Purity and Nourishment. But there has been no gloom around the big, clean plant at Hershey, Pa. Those neighboring Mennonites who did not join...