Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S Miscellany researcher, who became confused in trying to read a plain Welsh sign correctly, is hereby excused...
...minutes with a penciled slip of paper in his hand. Triumphantly he read it to the Senate. It was a paraphrased* message from the President, two days late, promising that he would sign the George Bill. Thereupon, Alben Barkley moved that the vote on confirming Henry Wallace as just plain Secretary of Commerce be delayed until March 1. Few doubted that at that time Henry Wallace will win the Senate's approval. Reasons: 1) the job has been stripped down; 2) most Senators grant a President the right to name his official family (e.g., even Harry Hopkins was confirmed...
...Lieut. Gen. William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army were already drumming a prelude to battles to come. Six new armored divisions, four new infantry divisions had suddenly appeared in this area, said the Nazi radio. The Allies, it added, were preparing for a smash across the Cologne plain to the Rhine...
...despair that infected all classes, from the Queen Mother Elisabeth (once the wife of World War I's beloved King Albert) and her Regent Son Charles to the poorest peasant on the Flanders plain or the meanest miner in the coal-rich Borinage. The upper and middle classes felt a mounting insecurity before social dislocations. The lower classes felt insecurity in everything-and their resentment found a scapegoat in Premier-Pierot, who had spent the war years as head of the Government in Exile in London...
...they got Guilford and Liggett." In 1934 gunfire from a passing automobile had brought down another Minneapolis publisher, Howard Guilford, who circulated two scandal sheets, the Saturday Press and Pink Sheet; and, a year later, Walter Liggett, publisher of the Midwest American, got his. Liggett, a former editor of Plain Talk (a magazine), and Guilford, a veteran St. Paul newspaperman, once had some legitimacy as journalists. Kasherman had none...