Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plain words, the Supreme Court has told state legislatures they must keep their hands off price-fixing in private business. Of course public utilities must be regulated, but a theatre is a private enterprise, just as much as is a grocery store. . . . Had this decision gone the other way we would soon have the price of a haircut and the price of a stick of gum and the price of a newspaper fixed by legislation...
That desirable thing, a monopoly, last week fell into the lap of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The small but amiable Cleveland Times, its only competitor in the morning field of a city with a million citizens, died, as a local colyumist said, "after a long sickness." The Plain Dealer took over the good will and list of subscribers (about 20,000). There was no announcement of a sale, but it was not unreasonable to suppose that the monopoly was worth perhaps a, quarter of a million. President Samuel Scovil of the company that published the Times signed a wistful valedictory...
...home" the Times had been more notable for naiveté than for force or brilliance. But newspaperdom watched the movements of the Times's unhorsed chief, Publisher-Editor Earle Martin, whose transfer from the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press last summer had given rise to the notion that the Plain Dealer was to have a worthy competitor (TIME, June 14). Earle Martin, onetime crack editor of the Scripps-Howard syndicate, was now at large again. . . . Earle Martin bought railroad tickets to Florida, said he was going fishing...
...another one of those plain West Virginia folks who have a bit of fun, especially reading those ignorant comic letters which some folk from Ohio are always writing about our state, "The Switzerland of America...
Sculptor Brancusi simplifies line and movement until anything may mean anything. Is it then that the honest U.S. inspectors are mentally too advanced to comprehend plain simplifications...