Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excessive is the number of Government plain-clothes snoopers that their cost has been solemnly justified on the ground that it amounts to a dole, helps to keep down unemployment...
...detective showed Mr. Burke a letter inviting a "Dear Friend" to the Olympian League's annual Nudism Forward Campaign. "How much would it cost?" "One dollar for single men, or single or married couples," answered Mr. Burke. Detective Barr had a Miss Anna Brady, a policewoman in plain clothes, with him. Both entered...
...Boston today are two descendants of the famed old family named Robert Treat Paine-one sometimes known as "Plain Paine" to distinguish him from Robert Treat Paine II who married a Cabot and lives in Brookline. Robert Treat II, great-great-grandson of the Paine who signed the Declaration, graduated from Harvard in 1882 "to devote himself to the management of corporations, largely in the line of electrical manufactures." He was elected a director of General Electric Co. in 1894. two years after the company was formed and in the middle of the worst year in its history. Last week...
Typical of the plain-living, courageous line of U. S. missionaries in China were the John C. Stams. Both children of Protestant churchmen, they looked remarkably alike: serious, firm-jawed young people with tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
Retorted Chairman Biddle: "It is un necessary to torture the meaning of plain language. The word 'may' permits but does not compel us to decline jurisdiction. . . ." Last week the Labor Relations Board reaffirmed its decision...