Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standard refused to cancel its formal contract with Condor until the State Department threatened to invoke its black list. But Berle hinted that the company may have wanted the blacklist threat as a defense against a possible breach-of-contract suit. President Parish hailed this interpretation as plain truth...
...Camp on large island of Shikoku in the north near Inland Sea, on fertile plain between hills covered with pines; good climate; no endemical diseases...
Over one of Germany's powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...
...following night Propagandist Anderson's bacchanalian bombast, translated into German, was short-waved back to her adopted country for all hungry Germans to hear. The effect was not bad. Plain Jane went off the air, has not been heard from since. It was a technical knockout for the U.S. Donovan Committee...
...plain citizen whose sister is a queen arrived in Washington on a little business trip, with no tantara at all. He was David Bowes-Lyon, representative of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, brother of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth...