Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend or admirer of Harry Hopkins am I. Nonetheless, any advocate of fair play must condemn as outrageous, contemptible, and libelous TIME'S action in publishing a distorted, hideously repulsive photograph of the Administrator's entirely normal features...
...potent Paul McNutt. After a series of 10,000-mile telephone calls, High Commissioner McNutt decided that his own ambitions were more important than the President's purge. Defeat through division this autumn would weaken his machine. Van Nuys's charges of scandal might sully the fair McNutt name. The renomination of Frederick Van Nuys became an incident in the plans of McNutt...
...many a listener, it seemed to be news that George Gershwin was the creator of three fairly recent movie tunes, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In-all played under the title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit of the evening was poised, satin-voiced Negro Maxine Sullivan, singing Nice Work and Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) from memory. The rest of the vocalists, apparently under some pernicious radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses...
...Ickes. must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition. . . ." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than the Administrator of Public Works." Asked if he anticipated trouble from the private utilities, Mr. Ickes said: "I never anticipate trouble, especially when I know it is coming...
...fixed figure, the Government must hold the wheat until the price rises. Thus it will be spending $100,000,000 or more to store the surplus, while foreign producers will have the world market to themselves by selling at the prevailing price. To insure the U. S. of a "fair share" of the world wheat business, Secretary Wallace would like the world's farmers to store their surplus wheat this year...