Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beside a rural filling station six miles west of Clarksburg, W. Va. one day last week, some 200 public officials and plain citizens gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia...
...agreed to join, Garland went along. Thereafter, in many a darkened room (and sometimes in a daylit office), he heard, saw, felt many a queer thing. Scientifically curious, he kept records of the seances he attended. In Forty Years of Psychic Research he has rewritten those records into a "plain narrative of fact." Though he has changed "psychics' " names, supplemented his written record with his memory, he goes bail for the essential accuracy of his facts. Says he: "If these supernormal events are illusory, then all the events of my life are illusory...
...modeled after the oldtime New England town meeting, he ran three years ago as Des Moines' Superintendent of Schools. Adult education is Commissioner Studebaker's strongest interest, and he believes that public discussion is the foundation of any adult program. Last week in a little book called Plain Talk,* he wistfully told what he would do if the U. S. Government were to allot him $70,000,000 for experimental purposes. He would train 10,000 forum leaders, set them to leading 50,000 forums a week all over...
...speech and no evening clothes, Smith Wildman Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers, two sons and one daughter...
...project. This, at a time when roughly $5,000,000 had been spent on the Florida folly, $7,000,000 on the Passamaquoddy scheme, and a good size town, called rather redundantly--Quoddy, had been crected, doesn't hold with what the late Will Rogers would have called "just plain, common, hoss-sense...