Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight the War Department sounded off twice. Both announcements were sponsored by Secretary of War Davis himself but from the subject involved it was plain to see that the Assistant Secretary of War, chunky, cheerful Hanford MacNider, was on his job. The subject of the announcement and the MacNider job were and are munitions...
Going home for Christmas, jaded Congressmen had time and opportunity to read about themselves in the language of one of themselves. Red-headed (but amiable) Representative Loring M. Black Jr. of Brooklyn, N. Y., in an article entitled "Congress Isn't So Bad" in Plain Talk for January wrote as follows: ". . . The question before the house is: Has Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well...
...situation with great courage, with great intelligence. ... I think I may say that no Secretary of War in American history ever realized the relationship which should exist between the Secretary of War and the Commanding General so completely and understandingly. Orders were given in plain language when I set out and I think Mr. Baker will bear me out that those orders were never changed and never modified. I was given full confidence. ... I ever shall be grateful."-and of whom Vice President Charles G. Dawes said: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the Great...
Joseph Patrick Crosby of Jamaica Plain and Harold La Berne Holland of Dayton, Ohio, have been nominated for Permanent Class Committee; and Eduardo Andrade of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Richard Thomas Dunn of Bridgeport, Conn., were added to the list of nominees for the Album Committee...
Albert Henry O'Neil of Jamaica Plain...