Word: decently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truth and for peace can no more defend Naziism than welcome other loathsome diseases. Fortunately for those who would rather have others stand in front, the Allies need airplanes more than men, so we need send no soldiers, certainly none who do not want to go. It would be decent to ourselves to send munitions free, most boorish to refuse credit. James Angell McLaughlin (Professor, Harvard Law School...
Used though they are to their private brand of internal politics, Army men are taught to expect at least a show of decent order at the top. The indecent disorder at the top of the War Department improved neither their morale nor their respect for civilian democracy. Two years between his upper and nether bosses brought Chief of Staff Malin Craig near to distraction and collapse before he got out last June and turned his cross over to brilliant, patient General George Catlett Marshall...
...Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
Elliott Roosevelt, like his father (see p. 13), had his say over the radio: "We haven't been neutral in spirit, because it is impossible for decent human beings to remain neutral in the face of scientific barbarity, but as a unit, as a nation, we will have to make up our minds as to just what our course of action will be as regards this awful destruction...
...than a billion dollars in assets). But he did something else. He took the case of the utilities to the public. He articulated the argument against public ownership, generating power regardless of cost, and the argument for private ownership, under regulation, selling power at low rates and making a decent profit on its capital invested...