Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that most trade union leaders thought the government had gone too far in regulating industry. The U. A. W., an affiliate of the C. I. O., declared that the solution to the present business recession was to increase the purchasing power of the workers. Business, of course, made it plain that New Deal mistakes were to blame for the slump, emphasizing the lack of confidence which unsound policies have induced. In rather guarded statements economists asserted that only increased employment will cause industry to pick up, and more employment cannot be had without a better balance between price and demand...
...radio. Some Chase & Sanborn customers threatened a boycott. "Bad taste," mourned the Motion Picture Daily. Such terms as "profane," "filthy," "obscene," "vomitous," burst from such varied commentators as the Chicago Tribune, the Battle Creek Federation of Women's Clubs, New York's Congressman O'Toole, churches, plain citizens. Washington's Rev. Dr. Maurice Stephen Sheehy, head of Catholic University's department of religion and Don Ameche's great & good friend, was hopping mad. NBC and J. Walter Thompson officials, thoroughly alarmed, hastened to placate him with an apology, announced publicly they would never...
...winter lecture season got under way, one plain fact was apparent from the topics chosen for speeches, the fees paid lecturers, the types of writers who proved popular. It was that the taste of U. S. audiences had been rapidly changing. A few years ago sex and psychology were major lecture subjects, with travel adventure of the type popularized by Richard Halliburton running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer...
British editors, rallying to potent Sir Kingsley Wood, rebuked Humorist Herbert for "misrepresentations," "distortion" and "questionable levity." He replied with a letter to the London Times, arguing: "If more plain language were used, there would be less bad legislation. It shocks no one to [have the Government census taker] say 'Other issue and marriage condition of father and mother where the father of the child is a person other than present or a former spouse?' But what this means in plain language is: 1) 'Have you had any other illegitimate children?' 2) 'Are you married...
...considerable good nature and a general sanity too unmitigated to be of much current use to a loyal inhabitant of contemporary Europe. But Poet Auden is not so loyal to Europe as to deny the notion-suggested by the sight of Icelanders clumsily gallivanting at a country fair-that plain human nature is the essential thing to be loyal...