Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney he had acquired a passionate hatred of and contempt for racketeers. The chance to fight them was too good to miss. Big-Game Hunt-Prosecutor Dewey made one thing plain at the outset. His investigation was going to be unlike any other in the city's history. He was not going to head one more futile roundup of criminal small fry-petty thugs, prostitutes, gamblers and crooked policemen. He was out, he announced, to get the bosses. For his big-game hunt, Special Prosecutor Dewey sought a staff of assistants, young, fervent, able, fearless. He found his chief...
have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government." (1832) Abraham Lincoln: "If the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, it is plain that the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." (1857) There is no attempt in Federal Justice, as there is in Lawyer Morris Ernst's new book on the Supreme Court (TIME, Jan. 18), to take from the judiciary the ultimate sanction in U. S. life...
...York Sun, who unbent to write: "Mr. Grofe presents 'paper' music; his orchestra does not consist of swing men, and never is there any attempt to 'frisk their whiskers.' Indeed it must be admitted that a good deal of the time they are just plain 'corny,' but when the notation calls for it they can make a reasonable approach to a jam session...
fraternal societies so furiously get together? -because men are afraid of the wide open spaces. TROPIC FEVER-Ladislao Szekely-Har- per ($3). Plain reminiscences of the author's sweaty experiences as youthful overseer on tobacco and rubber plantations in Sumatra 20 years back...
...Shakers were the first "functionalists" for, surrounded by hybrid designs of French or German ornament, they rediscovered Early American simplicity. All this is plain to be seen, in their cup-boards and in their clothes. Everywhere their superior standard of workmanship is effectively shown...