Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a time Son-in-Law Charles John Boettiger (pronounced Bott-igger) had stood in that same office along with those same newshawks listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction...
...Plain People v. Pundits...
...THOSE FELLOWS LIPPMANN AND SULLIVAN? THE PLAIN PEOPLE NEVER HEARD OF THEM [TIME, Jan. 14]. ... ALL WE DO IS ASK THE OLD FOLKS TO CONSUME THE $20,000,000,000 ANNUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE PRODUCE AND WHAT WE CONSUME SO THAT WE CAN HAVE BALANCED PROSPERITY. ... I THANK TIME FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL REPORTING BUT WISH YOU WOULDN'T PLAY UP THOSE HEAVYWEIGHT PROFOUND MINDS WHO CONFUSE THE PEOPLE BY THEIR ABSTRUSE THOUGHTS. ASK JOHN DOE FOR HIS VIEWS...
...assurance of Mayo Clinicians many an x-ray man has ceased to wear heavy lead-filled rubber gloves and aprons as a positive shield against x-rays which, while harmless to the patient, might seriously injure the examiner. Mayo Clinicians assured the profession that ordinary leather gloves and plain clothing gave the x-ray technician all the protection he needed. Recently, however, Mayo radiologists tested their data, found themselves wrong and frankly recanted in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Not to leather gloves and plain clothing went credit for the fact that Mayo Clinicians had suffered no harm...
...about the mountain of Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount. For forty days the courageous band held out and fell only after many had been rescued by a French cruiser...