Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual Speech from the Throne (TIME, Nov. 8). Genial Lord Cecil spoke of his winning the Nobel Prize last week as "a feather in the cap of the League of Nations." Like many another British lord he has something of a weakness for the Nazis. "A plain, naked transfer of territory back to Germany would be difficult," said Nobel Prizeman Cecil last week. "I would favor the return of colonies [to Germany] being discussed...
...plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...
Most members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church, were pleased last week to learn that by next summer they will probably belong to a new church, a plain Methodist Church. With 8,000,000 communicants, 20,000,000 constituents and 29,000 ministers, the new church will be the nation's largest Protestant body. Ratification of the merger of the three churches, proposed three summers ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), requires assent of three-quarters of the conferences of each Methodist branch. Northern Methodists and the Methodist Protestants had ratified...
Even more praiseworthy is the fact that the telephone company has preserved the secret in order that future large-scale collections of representative natural expression may be made in the same way. There is no indication anywhere in the volume that it is anything but a plain, ordinary, dull telephone directory...
...Abrams '39, Long Branch, New Jersey; Z. A. Aronson '38, Fort Plain, New York; B. F. Bart, Jr. '38, West Redding, Connecticut; R. S. Bart '40, Redding, Connecticut; P. Baur '38, Leonia; New Jersey; D. Beck '38, Union City, New Jersey; P. I. Blumberg '39, New York; M. P. Brown '40, Rochester, New York; L. A. Campbell '39, Pelham Manor, New York; F. L. Chamberlin, Jr. '39, Stamford, Connecticut; J. L. Chase '39, Tully, New York; H. F. Cline '39, Elizabeth, New Jersey...