Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Share-Our-Wealthers left him by the late Huey Long. Sweat streamed off his broad face, plastered his shirt against his barrel chest as he swung into his harangue. No mild economic creed was his but a rousing call to arms. Too long, he shouted, had the plain people of the U. S. let Wall Street and Tammany rule them...
...their headquarters windows in the North African garrison town of Melilla in Spanish Morocco and brashly booed a regiment of the famed Spanish Foreign Legion, marching home from drill. The Legionnaires broke ranks, threw the Socialists out their own windows. At this a huge revolt, carefully planned, erupted into plain view and silence descended on Spain...
...once on Japan or be prepared to stop their armies from marching northward, in the general direction of Japan, the immediate direction of Chiang's capital at Nanking. What looked to the Chinese masses like the long-awaited war with Japan was soon revealed to be just plain old-fashioned civil war, as Chiang's Press asserted that the ostensibly anti-Japanese Southerners had actually received Japanese guns, planes and cash. Last week a Chinese maelstrom of bribes, manifestoes, circular telegrams and tentative skirmishes reached its climax...
...medical service at government expense infuriates the dentists even more than it does the doctors. The American Medical Association, sure of its strength in legislative lobbies, has compromised somewhat with Socialized Medicine. The American Dental Association, aware that its lobbyists are unskilled, its numbers relatively small* and its antecedents plain, fights Socialized Medicine tooth & nail. Cried A. D. A. President Winter in his farewell address last week: "While history is in the making it is not for the American Dental Association to sit on the side lines after the manner of listless spectators. . . . The outstanding trend in national and world...
...announced that seven of its nine distilleries had been shut down until October. With heated warehouses, National's decision had nothing to do with summer's effect on whiskey's flavor. Reason given was that National plants, after running continuously since Repeal, needed overhauling and replacements. Plain fact was that National, like the rest of the industry, feared overproduction...