Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the President of the U. S. considered it advisable to rouse reporters in the middle of the night, to say something which the world has every reason to take for granted, was not last week quite so remarkable as it might have seemed. Plain purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt...
...hundreds of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket holders were looking forward to rich rewards from the Grand National. In Midland, Ont.. a pious Protestant churchgoer named Mrs. Charles Fenton tore up a ticket worth $4,950. Her husband had bought it in her name. Mrs. Fenton thought this was plain gambling, and Mr. Fenton, gloomily agreeing, spent some of his own hard-earned money cabling the Irish Sweepstakes to keep...
Other points from Eyewitness Mowrer: "Three officers in plain khaki uniforms, devoid of any insignia whatever, came into the room and talked in Russian and made pencil marks on the map stretched over the table...
Although most of the coaches are naturally in superb condition for such play, any cases of over exertion, hot sun, or just plain thirst will be taken care of as in past years, by offerings of oysters and ale between innings...
Investment bankers generally refuse to underwrite small security issues for the plain reason that the bankers cannot pay the "fixed charges" and still make a worth while commission on the deal. Fixed charges in underwriting are legal fees, accountant fees and cuts to dealers. To gross $50,000, which investment bankers generally consider minimum per deal, the banker would have to charge an exorbitant commission to float a small issue. Said Mr. Vass: "The banker can afford to charge but 2% or 3% on the sale of a $10,000,000 or $20,000,000 issue, while he must charge...