Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation. No one was better qualified to assess it: in his 24 years in the Senate he had fought ten extended battles over race legislation, from the 30-day filibuster of the anti-lynching bill in 1935 to the nine-day filibuster over Harry Truman's Fair Employment Practices Act in 1950. Always the legislation had actually been withdrawn and the South...
...Mike Mansfield and New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson allowed that they had no notions of coercing the South. Such powerful Northern newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post and Times Herald and the Washington Star carefully re-examined their consciences to see whether they were being fair to Russell's position, came out extolling a great many of its merits...
Kerala is looking more like Yenan every day. In the countryside, Red-directed "peoples' action committees" assiduously poke their noses into everything from state transportation to the government's "fair price" food shops. When reports reached Kerala's capital of Trivandrum that some of the "action committees" were usurping the functions of the law courts, Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad replied blandly: "A government is best that rules the least." The "peoples' committees," he told his followers, were the wave of the future...
...Carlos Garcia's, since the Liberal Party is still trying to live down its reputation for corruption during the Quirino administration. Yulo gave one sedate, nonalcoholic tea to receive the delegates, 95% already pledged to him. There were no bosomy Yulo boosters and no peso sandwiches, but a fair number of Liberals obediently checked their firearms at the door...
...artists' colony of Woodstock, N.Y. last week, Hudson River valley antique dealers staged their annual fair of prize finds. The setting was itself an antique: a 60-ft.-long barn dating back to the middle of the 19th century. More than 1,000 people a day jammed the four-day exhibition, which comprised some 2,000 items, ranging from buttons to bureaus. The ladies who put the show together were mostly grandmothers, but they smilingly shifted furniture that would have given a stevedore pause. As each unveiled her best discoveries, the others clustered like birds. A Civil War soldier...