Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Dewey decision, the Democratic side of New York's gubernatorial picture became much clearer. The Democratic nomination lay between Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and New-Fair Deal Diplomat W. Averell Harriman. The choice was up to Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio, who. with his fellow Democratic metropolitan county leaders, controls a deciding bloc of delegate votes in the nominating convention next week...
...petunias." But last week, after hours of maneuvering with Tom Dewey (see above), Irv Ives yielded to his strong sense of party loyalty and agreed to run. He has no brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although he once taught public speaking, he is only a middling-fair speaker-a quiet man who hides a sharp intellect under the linsey-woolsey coat of an upstate countryman. He has been described (inaccurately) as a Jeffersonian Republican and as a political tiglon, yet few voters know what, specifically, Ives represents-except in the broadest general terms...
...American in Damascus was worried about the prestige of his country. Here the Russians had spent half a million dollars building the biggest pavilion at the Damascus Fair, while the U.S. Government had refused to let him spend even $15,000. Harris Peel, the USIS chief in Damascus, cast about for "something that would steal the show" yet cost nothing. His solution: Cinerama, which had never before been shown outside...
...trade specialists are generally relaxed about the Russian fair displays. U.S. businessmen see little value in exhibiting in, say, Indonesia, which suffers from a lack of foreign exchange and a bewilderment of trade controls. Said one expert: "A foreigner owning a factory built around American equipment isn't anxious to install Russian equipment, because the Russians haven't yet proven themselves on performance or maintenance like the Americans have...
...FAIR TRADE LAW REPEAL may be recommended by Attorney General Herbert Brownell's committee on antitrust laws and enforcement. After a year's study, the committee of 60 lawyers, businessmen and industrialists is expected to deliver a highly critical report on the 1952 McGuire Fair Trade Act, which sanctioned price-fixing between manufacturers and retailers...