Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate had planned to set up an independent Fair Labor Standards Board. with quasi-judicial powers (like NLRB's) to halt the transit in interstate commerce of goods produced under conditions not conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the States and see to it that goods for interstate commerce were legally produced. The House won, and the compromise bill's administrative provisions strongly reminded businessmen of NRA's myriad code authorities. Chief provisions of the bill...
Said he: "[The stores'] present predicament is wholly due to the circumstance that their employes are unorganized and looked upon as fair game for the organizers. . . . The law which stands behind [NLRB] in enforcing its judgments will and must stand behind it in reaching those judgments. ... No friend of labor, or at least organized labor, could think otherwise...
There were no volunteers. But Manhattan sportswriters suggested saloon-keeping, beer-drinking Tony Galento, first-rate heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the merry ribbing that followed, no one had taken the trouble to look in his Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he would have discovered that a gorilla has 13 pairs of ribs, one pair more than...
...naval training prepared him specifically for Nessie, for during the War he devised and carried out all British harbor defense against hostile submarines. Last week his round, disappointed-looking face was brightening with hope, not for shareholders ("they may never get a return on their money"), but for the fair name of science: "It is time," said he, "that the scientific world was taking The Thing seriously, and I have made this move with that purpose in view...
...Each has different symbols, but a fair sample is Standard's: Sound bank quality-A1+, A1 and A; borderline bank quality-B1 + ; speculative-B1, B, C1+, C1 and C; defaulted bonds...