Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president. In last week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, the record of that transaction was set straight. It was told how General Dawes announced to other Chicago bankers and officials of the RFC that his bank would not open next morning; how he made it plain that he was asking no help for his bank, merely giving warning to others of the serious banking crisis in Chicago that would follow his bank's closing; how all agreed that his bank must not fail; how later, when action was started against the bank's stockholders...
...nation's leader, "The Unknown" Chamberlain not for the first time revealed a flair for the sardonic.* Of retired Stanley Baldwin he said: "His love of truth wavered only occasionally, when, with a deceit which soon ceased to deceive anybody he was wont to describe himself as a plain, ordinary man. . . . Many comparisons have been made between Baldwin and other great Prime Ministers. For my part I have often thought that, making all due allowance for differences of education and upbringing and country, he comes nearest to Abraham Lincoln...
Next morning, 14 years after he formed the first of his three Governments, 69-year-old Prime Minister Baldwin entered Buckingham Palace to hand over to King George the seals of his office. Forty-five minutes later plain Mr. Baldwin reappeared, and pulling blandly at a cherry-wood pipe, entered his car. Tucked under one arm were two framed, inscribed photographs of Their Majesties...
There was no attempt to deceive anybody. I'm telling you under oath that it was a plain error and nothing else-made by the clerks in my office...
...wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics he soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks Tugwell's fearful and wonderful vocabulary, plus his inability to jolly newshawks, had much to do with his unpopularity...