Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal janizariat in many a quiet operation during the 1940 campaign. Niles's presence close to the President has a plain meaning: Mr. Roosevelt needs an able watcher -to keep a finger on all important political developments, large & small...
...subject of a second front the two men, tough and plain-spoken in their respective ways, presumably had plenty to say to each other. W. Averell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt, sat in on the conferences with instructions that Roosevelt would be in agreement with "all decisions taken here by Mr. Churchill." Whether there were any decisions remains to be seen. But if there were differences of opinion they were covered over afterward in a stage banquet in the Kremlin's huge and somber Catherine Hall...
Good war posters must tell their story simply, at a glance, for keeps-to plain citizens and highbrows alike. Few U.S. war posters since Pearl Harbor have done so. The majority have been ambiguous, arty, dutiful, frequently not worth the paste that held them up. These failings were long suspected even by the Government agencies whence the poster deluge has come...
...painter more accustomed to abstractions and highbrow symbolism, than to a simple realism. One such is Lawrence Beall Smith, whose poster of three children shadowed by a swastika (see cut) was released this week by Associated American Artists. Where the shadow comes from is an art problem that plain observers are left to guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers...
...Deal bureau, Artist Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters, it needed no careful study to evoke in plain men a forthright fighting emotion...