Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt made if plain that Nelson will become over-all production and procurement czar with title and powers equivalent to those of Britain's Minister of Supply, Lord Beaverbrook
...Plain Dealer was sold to Liberty Emery Holden, an ex-schoolteacher who had cleaned up in Cleveland real estate and Utah silver-lead mines. A versifying New Englander, Holden first tried his hand at editing the Plain Dealer himself. A shrewd investor, when he discovered his shortcomings as editor he looked around for a genius to run the paper...
...went to Elbert H. Baker, a tanner's son, who started as bookkeeper for the Cleveland Herald, switched to advertising, was hired by the Cleveland Leader, and then by Holden. Manager-publisher-editor of the Plain Dealer from 1898 to 1920 (when he retired), Elbert Baker began the then-sensational policy of telling the truth about circulation, bought wire services, hammered at separation of news and editorial, won a remarkable loyalty from his staff. In Baker's first years the rival Cleveland Leader, way out ahead of the Plain Dealer, paid little attention to Baker; when it realized...
...defense of the Plain Dealer's sedateness sedate Editorialist Shaw recalls that Newton D. Baker once said (to the Cleveland Y.M.C.A.) that an institution may be "both venerable and useful." Significantly, however, the Plain Dealer produced its most quoted editorial and its most spirited journalism when in 1940 it broke with century-old tradition to support Republican Wendell Willkie...
Messrs. Paley and Trammell had to think about these matters because it was plain to them that FCC's proposed regulations would not merely prevent such squeezes as Mutual complained was applied to it by NBC's Blue. The proposed rules were sweeping and revolutionary. They required that no station anywhere be linked by option-contract to one network alone. On the face of it, that would mean no NBC ... no CBS in their present advantageous forms...