Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lunch Franklin Roosevelt faced a different Henry Wallace. The returned world traveler now talked plain, hard, name-calling, delegate-counting politics. He was sure of 290 delegates at the convention, said Wallace, far more than any other Vice Presidential aspirant. He named and bitterly denounced the men who were "lying" to the President. He even reminded the President that the Democratic hold over the important Negro vote was slipping but that Negroes liked Henry Wallace. At 3 o'clock he left the White House. He had been promised a public Presidential statement about the Vice-Presidency...
...Term IV strategy was now fairly plain. The President, occupied with the problems of the whole teeming world, would seem to be too busy to engage in the "usual partisan" politics. Further, he would appear more & more in his self-emphasized role as Commander in Chief. Both attitudes were aimed at making Republican campaigning seem partisan and maliciously domestic...
...that Germans have more than their share of the Old Adam in them. Woodrow Wilson, believing that the postwar Germans of the new republic would be good and deserving democrats; the British, playing balance-of-power politics and encouraging a strong, pre-Hitler Germany; the assorted liberals, radicals, plain men of good will who trusted the Weimar Republic - all these, says Schwarzschild, were members of Germany's "foreign legions," and their illusion was part of the era's tragic foolery...
...mansion at Omdurman, on the upper reaches of the Nile, sharp-eyed parents, bright-eyed youths and soft-eyed maidens gathered last week for bargain day. From tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed his name. Up & down the Nile banks...
...less goods and services to spend their greater savings on, the U.S. people in three years have saved $75 billion (as much as they would have saved in ten years at the 1940 rate). Some may hold their savings to buy the overpublicized postwar "dream" products. But, just through plain need, large chunks of money should flow into trade channels, said Economist Slichter. The people will demand more steaks, more milk, more vacations, new clothes. Estimated Slichter: "Postwar demand for nondurable goods should be just short of $90 billion" (at 1943 prices...