Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political ineptitude in Herbert Hoover was one thing the country had been loudly warned about?but in the summer of Prosperity neither leaders nor masses gave a fig for statecraft. The tariff fight first made this deficiency glaringly plain. The President had called for "limited revision" but had miscalculated the greedy demands upon his own party from industrialists for top-notch rates. Their pressure soon put Congress clean...
...Plain People, Herbert Clark Hoover still has unbounded faith in himself and the ultimate justification of his own policies and methods. What gives him courage and turns his face hopefully toward the future is the certain knowledge that better economic times will bring him better political times. Well within the realm of possibility ?in fact most Republicans count on it? is a mighty upturn toward prosperity which will blot out the President's misfortunes and missteps of 1930-31 and restore him, sobered from his bout with adversity, to the peaks of popularity in time for the 1932 election...
...Stimson just plain scared of the --* or does he think an apology is something one nation can send to another like a valentine...
Perfectly plain to all was the Democratic backdown on food relief. Senator Robinson had first proposed an outright Federal gift of $25,000,000 to feed the hungry who had no other means of sustenance. By the Compromise he had accepted a proposition whereby $20,000,000 was to be loaned for food only to those who could put up collateral. Piercingly to the point critics showed how the family, without food, without grocery-store credit, without security for a Federal loan, would get none of the $20,000,000, would be as dependent as ever upon the Red Cross...
...grand jury. Observers wondered if Potter, in order to obtain funds for attorneys' fees in his forthcoming trial, had offered to supplement what was known in the land-grant case. It was said that many an official crook would have wished his death in that event. The Cleveland Plain Dealer went so far in its news columns as to remark: "Is it possible that whoever killed Bill Potter considered . . . that in the ensuing hubbub . . . there would be a not too gentle warning to Listen Schooley to keep his mouth shut...