Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Willkie back as their own. The man who two months ago was president of a billion-dollar Wall Street corporation, and lived on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, sat under the trees on his lawn and strolled around Rushville like a native. Willkie demurred when police (including two courtesy plain-clothes men sent by New York City's police commissioner) insisted on fencing off the sidewalk in front of his rented red brick house, for every day several hundred neighbors, farmers and motorists from neighboring States stop and wait politely before the house and several times a day Willkie...
...year old. Twelve months of anguish had trespassed on human hope. Young men with smiles had been struck down, boundaries had been swept aside as lightly as snow, loyalties had cringed and sickened, the whole world had learned to fear, suspect, hate. Among other things it had become plain that while Germans were without question the most meticulous, thorough, shrewd, methodical fighters in the world, Britons had dug down to the marrow of each British bone and to the ganglion of each British nerve, and demonstrated that despite gross muddleheadedness and inefficiency, Britain could fight...
...other way, Secretary of the Interior Ickes let fly with an old-fashioned barroom blast at the Republican candidate ("the simple, barefoot Wall Street lawyer"- TIME, Aug. 26). Then, while Wendell Willkie kept his eyes strictly front, three hatchet men let fly at Mr. Ickes. Only conclusion that plain citizens could draw was that the lofty level of the 1940 campaign would be restricted for the use of nominees only: for the rest, the air would soon be filled with razors, hatchets and shillelaghs...
...industry, instead of the present limitations on some defense contracts; 2) assured manufacturers that new plants built for defense would not be taxed after defense business stopped. Last week Congress continued to dally with these measures. But Messrs. Arnold, Towers and fellow officers made it painfully plain that there were still other reasons for delay...
...Roman Catholic Church ranges from plain people to prelates. A prelate who takes a particular interest in plain people is the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Shrewd, kindly, soft-spoken Bishop Sheil realizes that the workingman is the backbone of his Church, last year made headlines by supporting C. I. O.'s organization of the packinghouse workers in Chicago's stockyards. Last winter the Bishop did some organizing himself. Last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the directors of Bishop Sheil's Industrial Areas Foundation (who include John L. Lewis...