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...would have been much fairer for you to have headed this under its proper descriptive caption rather than taking a slam at chocolates. It is all right for you to be original in your headings but please don't stray from the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

What could be fairer than that? Legislators all over the world are always ready to write enthusiastic platitudes in favor of anything that sounds like a good cause. The wronged Poldavians seemed a very good cause. Each of the 28 deputies sat down at his desk and pledged his moral support to "Foreign Minister Lamidaeff of Poldavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Poldavia's Lamidaeff | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...ratio of production to salary in such an extra-New York organization as General Electric Co. was 2.6 to 1 (TIME, April 22), compared to 6.1 to 1 for New York, it might appear that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence of the Owen D. Young theory that a corporation's responsibility is about equally divided between capital, labor, public. The public's share includes, of course, great sums of money spent on research which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: N. Y. v. G. E. | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...fairer house than Prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impregnable of Eye | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...announcement of the winner by the audience should assure a more unbiased judgment than the present judicial system involving a few experts. Certainly the verdict of those uninformed, who can judge solely from the convincing force of the arguments as presented, should be a fairer criterion of the merits of the particular debaters than the decision of necessarily prejudiced experts. The Oregon system appears to be an answer to the existing demand for a more effective and valuable procedure in intercollegiate debating, and, judging from recent acclaim, bids fair to revive the dying popularity of the rostrum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCUSSION BECOMES GENERAL | 3/6/1929 | See Source »

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