Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Ramsay Steel-Mait-land, Minister of Labor: "The reasons why the Government introduces this bill, which is designed to suspend the Seven Hours Act only temporarily, are based upon a plain convincing fact: last year, apart from the Government's Coal Subsidy [TIME, Aug. 10 et seq.], over two-thirds of the great coal exporting firms operated at a loss. . . . The only way of meeting this situation, in the opinion of the Government, is an immediate but not permanent extension in the hours of labor...
...Hungarian National Assembly (Parliament) tendered a unanimous vote of thanks last week to "a plain old fashioned Yankee lawyer," Mr. Jeremiah Smith of Boston Town and Harvard...
...play about a street urchin who posed for a city statue. That was the point of the title. It seems more than probable that the Civic Virtue statue storm of the Hylan administration years ago in New York inspired the endeavor. With Irish street comedy and thin slices of plain folks philosophy it wandered along amiably enough. There were no eminent performers. The opening night a grey kitten strolled unexpectedly into the middle of one of the emotional crises...
What has happened in Buffalo is just the reverse of what took place last fortnight in Cleveland (TIME, June 14). There, the Plain Dealer's accidental monopoly of the morning field was threatened by the purchase of the Times by able Publisher Earle E. Martin. In Buffalo, monopoly of the morning field was systematically secured to the new Courier and Express, doubtless through the sagacity of Publisher-Politician-Sportsman William J. ("Fingy") Connors of the Courier, at whose plant the new sheet was published and whose son, William J. Jr., was announced as the new publisher. Besides the Express there...
Earle Martin, said oldtimers, knows how to edit, how to fight for circulation, how to jockey a paper into a lucrative advertising position. The Plain Dealer would soon have a rival worthy of its fame...