Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation of GOPoliticians missed this lesson because they had no chance to practice it. Unable to attain national authority, the G.O.P. Congressman in New Deal-Fair Deal days had only to satisfy the narrow interests of his own constituency; it was every Republican for himself. It still is. The habit of opposition, born during the years of exile, has not been broken. The appropriate charge against Republican Congressmen is not that of venality, or even of personal selfishness. It is that of a failure to understand the meaning of party responsibility, loyalty and discipline which are fundamental...
...rise of the discount house is in almost direct ratio to the passage of the Fair Trade laws in the 30s, which were designed to stop "discounts" and drastic price-cutting. The Fair Trade prices were so high that they left a fat margin for the discounter to cut. The laws can be enforced against big, well-known stores (e.g., New York's R. H. Macy & Co., Bloomingdale Bros., Abraham & Straus), but few manufacturers have the time or energy to slap a lawsuit on every small discounter. Some big companies such as Sunbeam, Magnavox and General Electric are trying...
Over and above the Fair Trade laws, another big reason for the growth of the discount houses is the attitude of the established retailers themselves. Too many businessmen have not made the adjustment from a wartime sellers' market with its shortages and high prices to the buyers' market of 1954. Instead of shaving profit margins to give consumers the benefits of the enormous postwar volume of sales, they have kept their prices high...
...ladies were snapped up first by noble favorites, often later by mere baronets, knights, popular actors and even acrobats. The most resourceful mistress of them all, for example, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, ended up in the arms of a nobody named Jack Churchill, who built so wisely on her fair foundations (she gave him ?5,000) that he became the great Duke of Marlborough...
...Marco Millions" is mistaken in assuming that any individual "must take the greatest blame"--or praise--for the choice of a production. Since in actual fact the play was amply discussed and chosen in full club meeting and in conjunction with the Harvard Theatre Committee, it is no more fair to do this than for me to hold Mr. Langguth fully responsible for the editorial views of the CRIMSON. Matters of policy must be ascribed to the organizations as a whole in both cases...