Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illuminating book, reasonable in its conception, plain in its details, and story-like in its sequences."--Hartford Times...
...office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 per week. He was 24 when in 1878 he obtained $10,000 from his half-brothers to start a newspaper in Cleveland. He called it The Penny Press and resolved always to keep himself and his work close to the plain people. This appears to have been the expression of a business conviction rather than a spiritual necessity, however. Soon after his first Press began making money, Publisher Scripps began what amounted to the invention of chain journalism. His system: find an ambitious young man, stake him as cheaply as possible...
...Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer, he was at his fanciest. The great man scowled down at his midget caller and in their ensuing conversation sought to squelch him thoroughly and forever. After the little fashion-plate had carried...
After being permitted to glimpse the inner office of the young financial genius (as indicated, Douglas in plain clothes) and being impressed by large transactions in stock sales made through a selection of innumerable telephones which surround the man, we watch Miss Daniels drawl her way into the sactum sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes...
...Federation of State Medical Boards and the American Conference on Hospital Service. Chicago was in its usual noisy municipal primary campaign with mayoralty candidates howling obscenities at each other. The doctors began their discussions with the subject of mental hygiene. Dr. Wilbur, polite and politic as ever, avoided plain statement, restricted himself to a philosophic: "Democracy demands at least a majority of competent citizens with orderly habits and balanced, temperate minds. Disaster awaits any people with too high a percentage of the insane, mentally defective, or emotionally unstable. In sanity lies safety." But sharp Dr. William Alanson White, despite...