Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough & tumble hearings, Henderson said he had to have the cash for 1943, that he intended to get it, and wanted 2,736 plain & fancy lawyers, 1,800 specialists, 600 economists. He would have no truck with voluntary price-watchers...
...strategy was plain: nominate Dewey, elect Dewey, have a tailor-made Old Guard candidate established for 1944. But to a big group of Republicans who distrust Dewey, it would be very bad medicine to ride to victory on the tails of a man whom they regard as a mere political opportunist. They are far from sure that it would be a ride to victory. Many of them think it would be worse for their party to ride to victory with a group whom they regard as reactionary...
Each Sunday since June 7, the people of Iowa have been able to tune to Listen, Iowa's Own Newspaper of the Air (WMT and KRNT, 1:30 p.m., C.W.T.) and hear a quietly dramatized report of what plain Iowans, people known only to their neighbors, are doing to win the war. Listen has told the stories of Iowa's Peggy Conrardy, the first U.S.O. hostess in Alaska; of Iowa's Carl Anderson, "who is doing the same thing he's done [raise hogs], just a lot more of it"; of Russell J. Waller, Iowa newspaper...
...marketing plain sea water at $20 a gallon, $1.25 a glass as a cure for "mineral deficiencies," one Michael Lee of Alameda, Calif. was fined $1,000. Thus ended a thriving business, with $30,000 a year in profits, 200 active sales agencies, and no production costs at all except packaging...
...honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney, Jr. '42, of London, England, for his thesis, "Alien Plain: A Study of Primitive Feeling in Rudyard Kipling's Verse...