Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counting this morning's mail-between 2,000 and 3,000 appeals for continuing NRA have come to the White House. They show that people realize that something will have to be done, but people don't yet realize what the Supreme Court decision means in plain language. (The President began to read excerpts from the stack of messages in his hand.) Here's a telegram from the druggists of Indiana: "Save us small business men from the ruthless destruction caused by the killing of NRA. . . ." Here's another from New York: "Issue a proclamation calling...
...Indian Britons, Quetta is a coveted assignment. The great heat of the Indus never reaches its plateau. Even in summer it is cool enough for polo. And in winter its thick clay houses can be kept warm. Surrounded by mountains, Quetta's plain is green with grapes and melons. Under British patronage the town has grown to 60,000, reared some fine Western buildings, drawn trade from southwestern Asia. And the Pathans keep life in Quetta from ever getting really dull. Last week, however, it was not the Pathans but the most disastrous earthquake in twelve years that picked...
Raymond Skinner Clark '36, of New York City, Frank Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, of Jamaica Plain, and Richard Maguire '36, of East Boston, have been named to the committee on the Regulations of Athletic Sports...
...perturbed by the quality of entrants in Canada's greatest racing classic, 18,000 Toronto socialites and plain people last week swarmed into Woodbine Park. In honor of the Silver Jubilee, more flags than usual were attached to the white buildings and the grandstand above the lake. All that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal...
...Everyone agrees that pictures are much improved and no one more freely than the Motion Picture Research Council. As to what our part has been is of little consequence-but the result is plain to all. Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, our former president, has an apt way of saying, 'You can't both do a thing and get credit for it and that describes our attitude. . . . The success of such films as David Copperfield and Les Miserables and of many other fine pictures is certainly a sign of progress...