Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While the Vice President's salary of $40,000 seems fair enough, his duties as "second in command" have "multiplied astronomically." His expense allowance does not cover his "necessary and important official and social functions." The commission's principal proposals: ¶ Raise Supreme Court Associate Justices' salaries from $25,000 to $39,500, the Chief Justice's from...
This plan is practical and fair. It would end a student's claim to dependency at the logical figure--the one at which he no longer needs family support. The only difficulty would be to determine where support stops and indulgence begins. Parents whose only contribution to a student's education might be a new Jaguar and a Brooks Bros. charge account should not be permitted to claim his as a dependent. So even under the new system some arbitrary limit is necessary. (Perhaps it could be based on the total cost of tuition, room and board with a constant...
...Since Faculty members received copies of the testimony when the Fifth Amendment was used, I thought it only fair that this changed testimony should get equivalent distribution," Bundy said. He referred to the fact that both witnesses had waived all privileges under the Fifth Amendment in their latest hearing...
...influence, it fails well as an instrument of Harvard's motto, "Veritas." The extreme bias of its presentation, regardless of its content, has, I regret, only alienated a few; it intrigues most. The chief device employed by the CRIMSON to further its causes is the non-recognition of fair criticism, as well as of letters to the editors, unless they coincide with the doctrines of CRIMSONism." Concerning McCarthy, its stand refuses to admit of any honesty or sincerity on the part of the accused, assuming that he is somewhat of a glorious revolutionist...
...When Fair Dealer Chester Bowles, onetime ad-agency tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra