Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain English." Next morning the New York Daily News put the President's speech with absolute succinctness: SHOOT, F.D.R. TELLS NAVY. Day before, Press Secretary Stephen Early had told reporters the speech would answer all questions...
...dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany," offered U.S. Jews advice: they should suppress their natural opinion. He added: "The Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it [war] ... for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." The plain implication was that the Jews will be blamed for war if it comes and will be persecuted because of it when opportunity arises. If this was not a threat it was the next thing...
...Bohemia, orchestras are no longer allowed to play Dvorak's bouncing Slavonic Dances, his mournful Dumky (elegies), his evocations of Bohemia's folklore. For Dvorak's nationalist music speaks patriotically plain to Czech hearts...
Matthew and Mary E. Bartlett scholarship to Harold D. Rosenbaum, of Fair Play, Ky.; James Jackson Cabot fellowship to Carl T. Nelson, of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; DeLamar student research fellowships to William E. Watts, of Seattle, Wash., Victor C. Vaughan 3d, of Richmond, Va., and Israel H. Scheinberg, of New York, N.Y.; Jeffrey Richardson fellowship to Eugene R. Sullivan, Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; George Cheyne Shattuck memorial fellowship to Walter E. Knox, of McCook, Nebr.; Charles Eliot Ware memorial fellowship to William F. Pollock, of Santa Monica, Calif.; John Ware memorial fellowship to Herbert R. Morgan, of Bell...
...industry this week a new economic paradox was in the making. Government economists talked about the "priorities unemployment problem." But for a lot of people who would soon be out of jobs, out of victuals, out at the seat of the pants, it might just as well be called plain depression...