Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonus Senator Robinson refused to dodge. The vital vote was not on the President's veto but, before that, on the choice between the Bonus-plain (on which a veto might not have been sustained) and the Bonus-with-greenbacks (on which a veto could be sustained). Leader Robinson and a little band of devoted Roosevelt followers grimly voted for what they least of all wanted-green-backs-so that the veto could be sustained...
Purpose of the suits was plain. AAAmendments, already passed by the House, were scheduled to reach the Senate floor this week. On the theory that processors regularly pass the taxes along to consumers, the Amendments would outlaw all suits for tax refunds even if the Supreme Court should declare AAA unconstitutional. Thus taxes paid previous to the Amendments' passage are supposedly down the hatch to stay. Only recourse for the processor was to hold out on his taxes, let the Government go into court and try to force a collection...
...produce only a ridiculously small amount of additional revenue for the treasury. Upshot of the conference was a tacit agreement that the forthcoming tax bill would have to bear down harder not only upon the super-millionaires singled out by the President for special mention last month but also plain millionaires, sub-millionaires, sub-sub-millionaires and possibly on down the line to ordinary people with an income of more than $5,000 per year. Thus what President Roosevelt started as a tax program to encourage "a wide distribution of wealth" began to take shape as a full-bodied revenue...
Although Ethnologist Lowie writes for plain readers, avoids the technicalities of advanced ethnology, laymen are likely to find his conclusions too cautious, may be irritated by the qualifications and exceptions he notes to the general patterns of Crow behavior. That even primitive society was complex, dense, marked with restrictions and taboos, is plain from The Crow Indians, and readers who follow Ethnologist Lowie's account of his difficulties with native language and customs are likely to be made permanently skeptical of most popular accounts of life among the Indians. Where more superficial observers, for example, might be content...
...personal career and accomplishments, writes of plodding, methodical, routine work unlikely to fire any man of letters. Always conscious of the elaborate organization needed to collect the countless items of trivia used in building up a case, Cornish gives himself and other super-sleuths no more credit than plain constables or voluntary informants, writes as much of murders that were never solved as of those that were. The work of running down false clues was as important and tedious as the more showy labor of capture and arrest. When the body of Minnie Bonati was discovered, in the Charing Cross...