Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican Chairman Hall at first seemed startled, then laughed uncomfortably and finally snapped: ". . . fair campaign." As a pomegranate red seeped above his tight collar. Hall continued: "I offered to pay $1,000 to charity if anyone could prove Mr. Nixon ever made that statement. There have been no takers. The offer still stands." Retorted Butler: "It's just a play on words . . . It's clearly a violation...
With visions of his truce session going up in smoke, Fair Player Taft tried to intervene, tut-tutted: "That subject has been exhausted. Each side has stated his position." He explained that complaints of unfair campaign tactics would be screened by his committee, then referred to newspapers for public airing. At that, Butler wondered about the treatment his party would get at the hands of "editors whose papers are 85% in favor of the Republicans...
Hall (groaning): Here we go again. I think the press is fair...
Amid the uproar, Charlie Taft tried to read a statement, failed to get far, scrapped it, and admitted of his committee's ambitious project: "I wouldn't say that we are going to accomplish all that we want." That, at least, seemed to be a fair (if somewhat optimistic) campaign-year statement...
Next day he fired off a cable to Communist China's Chou Enlai, whose government had just put on a big trade fair in Cairo and was buying $28 million worth of Egypt's surplus cotton. Two days later, in an action likely to be followed by several other Arab-bloc countries, and likely to speed a showdown on Red China's bid for membership in the U.N. Assembly, Nasser's government extended diplomatic recognition to Peking. U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade first learned what Nasser was up to when Nationalist China's ambassador, the dean...