Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an opportunity came to President Roosevelt to speak of the faith that moves him personally. Dedicating a plain white brick house in Staunton, Va., where Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born, he turned a simple dedicating address into a statement of his credo...
...think of no more fitting place in all the land for Americans fo pledge anew their faith in the democratic way of life than at the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson. . . . This was a home of plain living and high thinking and wherever the family moved . . . they carried with them ideals which put faith in spiritual values above every material consideration...
...Pullman Co. found themselves on the receiving end of a $50,000 suit. Further, he filed a complaint with ICC. Last week, four years and seven days after his ejection from the Pullman, the complaint was upheld by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, which made it plain that the railroads would have to provide equal accommodations for blacks and whites...
...leadership. The extensive maneuvers scheduled for this summer and fall will provide an unusual opportunity for officers to demonstrate qualities of leadership under field conditions. Physical and mental vigor will be essential qualities in determining selections for command duty. General efficiency and age will, of course, be considered." In plain English: no longer could old fuddy-duddy Regulars, for the emergency's duration at least, count on being promoted by the mere passage of time...
...five vocalists chose an appalling name for their collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby's, had not been hard to find. Plain people know it-in Manhattan's Café Society and on CBS's Duffy's Tavern-as one of the best of the small ones...