Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are not to keep silent, what are they to do? "The plain duty of every churchman is to work and pray and vote for the election of Herbert Hoover...
...entered into the fight while a pastor in the South,* a section most conservative in the matter of mixing politics and religion. We were given the unqualified support of all good men, regardless of party, and no one ever intimated that we were doing anything more than our plain duty. . . . And now in this good year 1928, the major political parties have taken up the issue as a political one. The issue is clearly drawn between them not because of any material difference in the platform declarations but because one candidate has deliberately repudiated the plank on prohibition which...
...unsuspicious reader, newspaper reports of this routine transaction of government business held nothing alarming, suggested no sinister note. Surprising, therefore, was the following headline in the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...President Bragg's address. He dwelt much more on craftsmanship and science. British scientists are less aware of industry's needs than are their U. S. colleagues. The academic and the workaday are more separate there than here. Hence Sir William was obliged to exhort: "The plain truth is that modern craftsmanship, with all its noise and ugliness, is giving food, clothing, warmth and interest to millions who otherwise must die. In all honesty let us recognize that we live on craftsmanship in its modern form." The motor, aviation; chemical, electrical industries all need and use scientific research...
...harrowing time for the Nominee because the committee was debating, and soon would vote, whether or not he was to continue as a Nominee for the Presidency, whether or not he was to be withdrawn and returned to private life as just plain William F. ("Bill") Varney of Rockville Centre, Long Island...