Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the book is merely to disseminate political information and not to propose panaceas for present-day political evils. . . . All I have tried to do is to tell a plain reporter's story of the political game as I have seen it at close range and in many different parts of the country...
...defeat of Pan-Germanism (which lost six seats) is of course plain: no nation would be mad enough to think of uniting with a financially and politically chaotic Germany when its own economic life is improving under the aegis of the League of Nations. The decline of Pan-Germanism (Union with Germany) has been in ratio to the in- creased prosperity of the nation...
...called at the White House and was given the benefit of President Coolidge's first expression of opinion on the railroad situation. Of the intervening years Mr. Rea has spent 50 in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad-as railway engineer, as fourth, third, second, first and plain Vice President, and during the last ten years as President of the Company. The man whom Mr. Coolidge chose for his expression of policy is known, even among railroad presidents, for the tenacity with which he clings to his convictions. He worked hand in glove with James McCrea*, his predecessor...
...Story. Bertha was a big, blonde, Baltic lummox; one of those inarticulate girls; a strong, hardworking, silent, lonely servant?apparently impassive?regarded by mistress after mistress as just a good plain cook?yet possessed of a certain dumb, unconscious power of understanding. She passed through the lives of many other people, and, somehow, altered them...
...fraternity in an entirely new guise, it seems reasonable to believe that the mere circumstance that the schemers have concocted a kind of deception heretofore unheard of in jurisprudence is no reason why a court of equity should be either unwilling or unable to deal with the situation. The plain intent was, of course, to palm off Amador as another Chaplin, or as Chaplin himself, and this very kind of thing has been forbidden repeatedly by the Court of Appeals of New York State. (White Studio, Inc. v. Dreyfoos, 221 N. Y. 46, where the court said: "Unfair competition...