Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement that guests of the Roosevelt Hotel were marooned without food or water. In justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged to break up furniture and build fires on top of their ranges. I was in the hotel from Tuesday night until Thursday morning when I was able to leave in a motor boat after the flood had begun to subside. Water appeared...
Senator Vandenberg got the attention of the entire Senate when he quietly declared : "It seems to me this information is highly pertinent. . . . Let me make it wholly plain that I am not questioning the integrity of the disbursements. I am asking only for information bearing upon the public policy involved...
...Downing Street with the Prime Minister. Such hospitality at such a moment undercut any sign of British firmness against Germany which listeners might think they heard in the opening of Foreign Secretary's speech to the House of Commons. "I want, in all bluntness, to make this plain to the House: I am not prepared to be the first Foreign Secretary to go back on the British signature! . . . Many people may think the territory of France and Germany should be treated on exactly equal terms. Those, however, are not the terms of the Versailles and Locarno treaties to which...
Beneath a perpetually flickering lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel...
...company, it has been reported for weeks that he was about to sell out. Last week the reports were confirmed when Flintkote filed a registration statement for an issue of common stock to replace the present Class B stock now outstanding. Upon that conversion the Class A automatically becomes plain common. When this operation is completed, two Royal Dutch affiliates, Shell Union .and N. V. de Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, will sell the Flintkote shares they will get in exchange to a banking group headed by Manhattan's Lehman Brothers, who will in turn offer the stock to the public...