Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler was practically hammering on the Capitol's dome when Franklin Roosevelt closed with a quotation from Abraham Lincoln: "This generation will 'nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. . . . The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just-a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless...
While in the Department of Justice the Baron, then plain Mr. Hiranuma, became notorious for harsh, even sadistic, persecution of persons harboring "dangerous thoughts," an official euphemism for any ideas critical of the existing order. In 1914 he founded the Kokuhonsha (National Foundation Society), the nucleus of the military-fascist front. In 1936 the society was disbanded because Baron Hiranuma had become president of the Privy Council, and as an adviser to the throne was considered above politics...
...first dramatic role the famed singer of blues and hotcha shames the play's bogus tear-jerking with her own deep and honest intensity. More moving than anything in the story are the fugitive looks of love and suffering that every so often cross Ethel Waters' plain, brown, human face...
...mothers motherly. In Richmond last week Dr. Riddle and two of his ablest co-workers-Robert Wesley Bates, 34, and James Plummer Schooley, 34-summarized their work on prolactin. Dr. Riddle is also, more than any other U. S. biologist, a crusader for the propagation of biologic truth among plain people, and at a dinner for biologists he steamed them up on the opportunities and obligations of biology teachers...
With Musica-Coster the impostor dead & buried, a few plain facts about his twelve-year reign and rape of McKesson & Robbins made news last week. It seemed apparent: 1) that the company's $18,000,000 of missing assets would not be found in munitions or anything else because they had never existed in the first place; 2) that they had been written up on the books to keep the company apparently prosperous while Coster swindled it out of $4,000,000; 3) that much of his booty went for blackmail. Revealed by one or another of the various...