Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge . . ." But mostly, the people of Mercer Island wanted Stenhouse to stay despite the record disclosed by the House Subcommittee's visit. "We urge," said a spokesman for the county Young Republicans, "that individuals who have made candid and complete disclosures be given every fair consideration." Pleaded a doctor: "Let us judge a man for what he is and not for what he has been. Let us cherish a man's right to his past and respect what he has come to be in the present." Stenhouse spoke last at the school-house meeting. "I realize I made...
...Inexperience-his own and his people's-make leaders hard to find, ideas scarce, and decisions difficult to make. ("This government," said one of the U.S. officials anxiously trying to help, "is stuck together by Scotch tape, bits of string and putty.") The French, striving to maintain by fair means and by sly means a remnant of influence and profit in the land they have exploited for seven decades, obstruct him with the wily rearguard maneuvers of colonialism...
...Communists, he went on, had made him cut a regular quota of heads of hair every day, regardless of whether the customers could pay. The nationalists allow him to charge a fair price, and for that he is pleased. But then, on the other hand, there is the price of chicken. Under the Communists, a chicken cost half as much as it does today. "One does not have occasion to buy a chicken very often...
Died. Paul Vories McNutt, 63, lawyer, onetime (1933-37) Democratic governor of Indiana and first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1946-47), administrator of key New Deal and Fair Deal agencies and perennial aspirant to the Democratic presidential nomination; of cancer; in Manhattan. Handsome, white-haired Paul McNutt set his sights on the presidency ("I intend to be President of the United States") while still a Harvard Law School student in 1916. He served as a field-artillery officer in World War I, returned to Indiana to become (in 1919) law professor at Indiana University and later (1925-33), dean...
...Prince Rajada Sonakul told her. "When we finish educating all the delinquent boys in Thailand, perhaps we can do something for the physically handicapped." Weary of official brushoffs. Miss Caulfield decided to take her case to the people. She set up a booth at Bangkok's big Constitutional Fair, for seven nights straight gave demonstrations in reading Braille. Though the people watched and listened, they did not believe. Some said she was a spy; most thought her reading was only a trick...