Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mark Bristol's good offices in Turkey began when the Allies occupied Constantinople after the War. The French, the English, the Italians and the defeated Turks were perpetually rowing with one another&$151;usually at the expense of the Turks. Admiral Bristol, fair-play fighter, settled a good many of the rows by the intervention of his keen, strong personality-very often on the side of underdog Turks...
...This transition from war to peace has been accomplished by the faith which both sides have in the promise of the President of the United States, by arranging for American supervision to give Nicaragua a free and fair election...
...Insull announced that already the opera's business manager and the technical director, and also Architect Ernest Robert Graham (who has been building Greater Chicago since World's Fair days) were headed for Europe to study the last words in opera-house design. And he promised the new auditorium, fully equipped and staffed to amuse 4,000 Chicagoans nightly, for about Christmas time...
Married. Edward E. Paramore Jr., onetime (1923) National Affairs Editor of TIME, now playwright (Set a Thief), author too of Yukon Jake, famed poem printed and reprinted by request by Vanity Fair; to Miss Edith Wellman; in Manhattan...
...role in the first Holy Cross tilt, may draw the assignment, although indications point toward the selection of Dobens, a southpaw pitcher who plays in the outfield when he is not occupying the box, Dobens appeared in the ninth inning of the first game, and did not get a fair chance to display his wares against Harvard. Last Saturday at New Haven he shut out the strong Yale nine, 7 to 0, allowing only two hits...