Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gold, president of the leftist International Fur & Leather Workers' Union, also cut himself off, publicly, from the Communist Party this week. Gold, however, made it plain that he was resigning only so that his union could comply with the Taft-Hartley Law, and that after 30 years he was still as good a Red as ever. The New York Daily Worker, which ignored Lee Pressman's switch completely, clucked sympathetically over Ben Gold, who to hold his job would have to hide his true colors...
Even after Jacob Malik leaves the president's chair this week (see above), he will be able to block the Security Council as a plain delegate from Soviet Russia, by using his veto power. For this reason, the U.S. last fortnight decided to put the question of Korea's future before the U.N. Assembly when it meets at Flushing in mid-September. Last week the word at Flushing was that the Assembly, not hamstrung by the veto, would probably recommend that the U.N. army in Korea 1) push beyond the 38th parallel, and 2) establish a unified regime...
...help sell the Street, Schram stumped the U.S. His plain, corn-fed manner convinced many a U.S. citizen that the stock market was a good place to invest money. Schram campaigned to cut the tax on odd-lot transactions (mainly for the benefit of small investors), helped persuade Congress to write a more liberal capital-gains...
...That depends on the city: what kind of buildings it has, how thickly it is built up, whether it is built on a plain, in a valley, or on hills (which shield the areas behind them). With this AEC information as a guide, New York State's Civil Defense Commission, headed by General Lucius D. Clay, last week made an estimate for New York City...
...Arizona Plain Talk, a weekly, shouldered into the barroom argument. Either someone on the paper was working with the drys, said the weekly, or "the paper has been duped by one of the most obvious and oldest frauds in journalism." Another weekly, the Arizona News (circ. 5,217), thought it was mighty peculiar that the Republic ran "hard liquor advertising ($200,000 worth a year) that drives my daddy to hard drinking...