Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of his best fun was at the grounds of New York City's 1939 World's Fair. There, laying the cornerstone of the Fair's Federal Building, he said with a twinkle in his eye: "The master mason certifies that the cornerstone is well and truly laid and in return I have assured him that I hold a union card.''* There, accompanied by his dumpty little Fusion Republican friend, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, he also had the experience of being introduced to 20,000 delegates of the National Education Association...
...opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates became even more uncomfortable (though some cheered) when Professor Goodwin Watson, of Columbia's Teachers College, praised the cooperative achievements of Soviet Russia and sneered at New York City's World's Fair as "ballyhoo for business, a coming to gigantic life of the advertisements in the expensive magazines...
...ready to adjourn. Out it marched to the World's Fair, busily abuilding, made an honorary life member of onetime Teacher Eleanor Roosevelt. Presiding over the convention's final meeting, Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the main speaker. Said she: "It is the privilege of a presiding officer to make a speech. I will not avail myself of that privilege. May I present the President of the United States...
...left hand turned palm downward, and its remotest part is The Thumb. One day last fortnight in the little town of Ubly farmers from the three northern counties of The Thumb-Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac-gathered for a band concert, a baseball game, a celebration grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After dark, many...
...Berlin Boersen-Zeitung am Mittag sportingly editorialized: "We who for many years were proud and happy over Schmeling's victories must now show that we can be fair losers. . . . He may be assured that the Fatherland will never forget his 14 years' record...