Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleeing Senators, to protect themselves in Rutland, had on hand six members of the Massachusetts State Patrol as well as plain-clothes men from both States. For fear of kidnapping, no one of them is allowed to leave the hotel at night without a guard...
...newspaper of the plain people, by the plain people, for the plain people...
...success of my publications in other cities [Boston and Lynn] has convinced me that a newspaper can find a field in any city if that newspaper loyally serves the plain people. There are two many organs of class, too many highbrow journals concerned only with the vagaries of the rich, and there are too few newspapers telling of the hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows, of the plain people...
...propose to make this newspaper the organ of the plain people and I have every confidence that the plain people will work with me and support me. I do not care for any other support...
What is a paper of the plain people, by the plain people, for the plain people? In plain, simple language it is a paper with the largest and blackest and boldest of headlines?a real rival in that respect for Wm. R. Hearst. It is a paper which carries on its front page stories of "Bomb's Deadly Work," "Fleeing Heat, Dies as He Falls Off Roof on East Side," "Divorcée's Navy Romance Revealed in Suit," "Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport...