Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...animal? Never take the life of a weak and defenseless animal for your own amusement? Never join in a chase where foxes, stags, otters or hares are driven for miles & miles by crowds of dogs and men-and sometimes, I am afraid, by women and children? Is this fair play? Is this sport...
Wedding Anniversary. Carter Henry Harrison, 77, son of the Chicago mayor murdered in his fifth term during the 1893 World's Fair, himself five times Chicago's mayor, and Edith Ogden Harrison; their 50th; in Chicago. Said spry Mr. Harrison, who nightly takes a drink: "Family spats . . . add spice to married life, provided they are not allowed to go too far." Asked his wife's age, he replies: "She never gives the same one twice...
...horse trainer, Townsend sometimes races his own horses, sometimes goes on shares with other owners. He travels with the horses, in a truck. His affection is not for the bigtime tracks but for the half-mile county fair circuit in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois which horsemen know as the Frying Pan or Leaky Roof circuit. In 20 years he has acquired a vast acquaintance with this circuit's "bush-riders," carnival people, horse breeders, newspapermen, and with the character of each small-town track. Both Lee Townsend's friends and Manhattan critics last week found the new paintings...
...Massengill, however, rallied friends around him. The local Chamber of Commerce declared: "It is only fair that the public be advised that the S. E. Massengill Company has been in business 40 or more years. That it has several handsome buildings well equipped with laboratory facilities, employs more than 200 people at Bristol including six graduate pharmaceutical chemists and other trained assistants. Dr. Massengill holds an M. D. degree, and is directly in charge of the plant. This plant manufactures drugs for human consumption which are used by many of the largest and best hospitals and physicians throughout the country...
...this fair disclaimer, Franklin Roosevelt then added his view of the railroads' two most pressing problems. One is financial. He suggested the case of a road with outstanding bonded indebtedness of $200,000,000 which can earn interest on only $100,000,000. What, asked the President suggestively, would you do? The other problem is competition. He suggested that the nation is gradually coming to believe that parallel trackage must be eliminated in many places. Best solution he could think of for his press conference was consolidation of many lines into single, efficient, noncompeting systems...