Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt is by no means an exception to the rule that a U. S. President, like plain citizens, needs an occasional friendly cheer to lift and reassure his spirits. No more is he an exception to the rule that a President also needs a friend with the gumption to remind him that he cannot always be right, offer sympathetic but searching criticism of his plans and purposes, occasionally say "no" to his bright inspirations. More impulsive than most, Franklin Roosevelt had such a salutary intimate in the late Louis McHenry Howe. Since that devoted little secretary took...
...plain citizens that procession of battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers and destroyers might seem Might enough to protect even 40,000 miles of coastline. But it did not seem so to the U. S. Navy Department. Therefore in Washington last week the House Appropriations Committee reported the biggest Navy supply bill in peacetime history, including authorization to spend upward of $102,000,000 to build two new battleships in case any other signatory of the London Naval Treaty or the new 1936 treaty did so.* Same day in London the First Lord of the Admiralty informed Parliament that His Majesty...
Five thousand men, bravest remnant of the old Imperial Guard, shouldered their rifles again and marched away. Tired little Haile Selassie, forgetting the raw burns on his arm, retired into his Palace for a final conference with his chieftains. The Government, it was plain, would have to move. Should it go southwest to Gore, near British Sudan...
...Robert's horse was originally called Demijohn, or John. A Negro groom, leading him from his stable into the sunlight, was so delighted with the sheen of his coat that he cried: "Doggone, hoss-you ain't no plain John! You'se John the Baptist." John the Baptist's half-sister is Salome...
...these, for example, belongs to a newly organized brain trust-not mine. He says that the only way to get full recovery -I wonder if he admits that we have had any recovery-is to lower prices by cheapening the costs of production. "Let us reduce that to plain English. You can cheapen the costs of industrial production by two methods. One is by the development of new machinery and new technique and by increasing employe efficiency. We do not discourage that. But do not dodge the fact that this means fewer men employed and more men unemployed. The other...