Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What justification is offered by the Government, or by the New Deal, or by Mr. Farley for all this? To me as an average U. S. citizen it is just plain dishonest...
...Western Union messages. Each club was assigned a quota of 15? per member. Responses came in in apologetic driblets, but they added up to $11,490 in addition to the $21,000 already in hand for a lobby which no longer existed. That transaction, charged Counsel Sullivan, constituted a plain case of using the mails to defraud. To questions about it, flushed and flustered Dr. Townsend sullenly pleaded ignorance. Finally he asked for a five-minute recess, went out to pace the corridor. The committee adjourned until 2:30 p. m. At that hour Dr. Townsend did not reappear...
...admit that Alf Landon was born of humble but of honest parentage. He was not born of an illustrious family whose name is known. He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and educated by private tutors and when he goes fishing, being so plain and simple, he gets a cane pole and a can of worms instead of taking a trip on a million dollar yacht of a social highlight...
...value. Selection of paintings had been left to Governors. So scant was official interest in New Hampshire and Louisiana that no pictures were chosen at all from these States. First National had only three abstractions, a few surrealisms, countless landscapes, mostly of each artist's native town, plain, mountain, sierra, river, lake or desert. Overwhelming majority of the artists were entirely unknown, uninspired, surprisingly competent. A bad start were the Hawaiian entries, except for John C. Young's painting of blue-white water foaming against rocks. Puerto Rico's N. Poy was even worse with a peon...
...Biblical times, thousands of men met in the middle of a plain and slashed one another until only a few were left standing. Today, the primary aim is not to kill but to incapacitate. And poison gas is an ideal method of achieving that...