Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain-speaking Governor called for an open fight between Willkieites and anti-Willkieites; he does not want another smoke-filled room. He said...
...Justices Frankfurter and Reed, he retorted: "The Court sustains this [FPC] order as reasonable, but what makes it so, or what could possibly make it otherwise, I can not learn." The newest split in the Court had a special interest to the U.S. in general. It was now plain as a pikestaff that the Court can never be effectively packed. The seven "Roosevelt Judges" have repeatedly split seven ways from Sunday. More often than not Justices Frankfurter, Reed and Jackson line up with the pre-Roosevelt Roberts in a "conservative" minority; while pre-Roosevelt Stone sides with Hugo Black, Douglas...
...Your presentation of the backyard internecine squabbling among New Deal and Southern Democrats is plain disgusting...
...first official summary of Air Forces accomplishments since the U.S. entered the war. Since Pearl Harbor the Army Air Forces has grown to be the world's biggest air power. Said "Hap" Arnold of one of the most dramatic developments of fighting power in history: "It is now plain that for us the beginning has ended; for our enemies the end has begun...
...Arnold made no promises, but it was plain that, even though he kept a tight grip on his irrepressible optimism, he did not think the end, already begun, was in any doubt...