Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe there exists a greater menace to our democratic government by rule of constitutional law and majority decision when a wealthy and educated class begin to think that our democracy and our capitalism are so sage and secure from attack that they afford them the privilege of exemption from plain provisions of the law and the constitution. The test of democracy is not obedience to a law we all favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad shopmen...
...plain facts...
...opening sessions of the conference were marked with much plain speaking from Premier Ramsay Mac-Donald. Old Tsarist Treaties were relegated to subcommittees for inspection, but no important decisions were or could be arrived at. Cessation of Bolshevik propaganda and recognition of debts and private property by the Soviet: Government were the chief items on the agenda...
...years after his birth, he obtained his Civil Engineer's degree in Rome. He then went to the U. S. as plain Signor G. Castania and out west to work for John Hays Hammond, who, having noticed "the young and intelligent miner," promised to keep his name and rank a secret...
...Board. It is also ob- vious that the student members of the Union themselves, as represented by the Undergraduate Committee, may have their preferences as regards speakers disregarded at any time. We strongly believe that the wishes of the students ought not to be disregarded, even though it is plain that some of Harvard's alumni will object to certain unorthodox men being invited to the Union...