Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everywhere outside the Axis countries the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting got a press that must have delighted the authors of the Eight Points. Editorialists greeted the lofty peace aims of the Points with loftily expressed praise and hope. Many Latin American newspapers made it plain that they were in hearty accord with Good Neighbor Roosevelt. The Argentine press was almost as warm toward the Points as Good Neighbor Eleanor Roosevelt herself. (Wrote she in My Day: "We all listened breathlessly. . . . One felt it was an important moment in the history of world progress...
Last month Ace Buckley came home, only to have his flying career make a crash landing in a Toronto police court. Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted. Fortnight ago, police nabbed him swanking about Toronto in a flyer's uniform with a D.F.C. ribbon...
...before the committee came Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who stepped out of his constitutional mildness to speak a plain forthright mouthful about defense taxes. He asked for a new bill that would bring in from $800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 more than the $3,206,200,000 the House bill would raise. Purpose: to build up public morale with "an all-out tax program," head off inflation by cutting the public's purchasing power...
...their delight they discovered that they commanded a majority of votes. In one skirmish after another they routed the Lewis-Addes side. By week's end it was plain that Mr. Lewis was taking a pratfall. Showdown would be over ousting the Communists, beating George Addes, electing a new executive board with a Reuther majority on it. But the final showdown would be bigger than that. As the convention went into its second hot, tense week in Buffalo, behind the scenes the fight was on for control of U.S. labor...
They had begun to murmur when the State took away their plain little red schoolhouses, gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...