Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground or another, hostility to the loan was evinced in London and Paris; and rumors were spread that the loan might not be successful. In plain point of fact, the loan is certain to be successful if for no other reason than that J. P. Morgan and British bankers have endorsed it. Probably it will be oversubscribed...
...American. I understand that thoroughly. The international bankers have taken away all the money from the people and yet-and that is what puzzles me-the people seem happy. How is that?" PAYNE: "Very simple. The international bankers have not taken absolutely all the money-they have left the plain people a small amount, but enough to buy Mr. Hearst's three New York papers, his two Chicago papers, his two Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, Rochester papers, his 16 magazines, and still enough money to go and see his eight expensive historical movies. Why should they...
...Assembly, said he, was nothing but "words, words, words? which means, in plain English...
...common. One was a profound concern with the wonders that beset men's comings and goings, traffics and discoveries, on the earth. The other was renown. They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy. Sometimes the summer lightning of plain speech lit the cloudy thunders of their discourse . . . "$62,000,000,000." . . . "The most amazing development in History." . . . "How to cure rickets...
Conservatives interpreted Philip's speech as a plain statement in support of protection, which means preferential tariffs for Commonwealth products. The prophets heralded a new general election in which the following problems would be paramount...