Word: pikestaffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiralty in effect reversed the court martial's conviction of Captain Sawbridge of the Renown. His reduction to half pay was canceled. His sentence was reduced to a mere "reprimand." And in final vindication he was restored to full command of the Renown. Plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if a British admiral could be guilty, Admiral Bailey would...
Last week the news became fact. Bankerishly at Basle, members of the Board refused to comment on their unanimous vote. Pikestaff plain, however, looms the fact that President-elect Leon Fraser is slated to play a major role in 1933's great effort at international recovery, the World Economic Conference...
...Gibson was reading the Hoover plan to the assembled delegates at the Disarmament Conference. The President had made his proposal as a bold and radical attempt to galvanize the conference into action after five months of fumbling. Its reception by the Conference was only lukewarm. But plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if the Conference rejected the U. S. proposal and then adjourned, the U. S. door would be slammed upon all European powers who might come to Washington seeking reduction of their War Debts because of hard times. The President's plan meant...
...Boston's Mayor: "In the words of the poet, 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!'" When a complete slate of Smith delegates, headed by Governor Ely and Senator Walsh, was put into the field, it became plain as a pikestaff that the Brown Derby was in the campaign up to its ears, that its intention was to corner enough convention votes to keep Governor Roosevelt from conjuring...
...would mount a bare platform and make a speech. His constant theme: Cut wheat acreage by 20%. But when the farmers got home at night, they were more likely to remember Mr. Legge's clenched fists, his red, sweating face, his "hells," and "damns" than his plain-as-a-pikestaff argument that, with world prices down, U. S. wheat production (850,000,000 bu.) must, to be profitable, be cut down toward domestic consumption...