Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Denver's Rocky Mountain News, which has stanchly supported the Governor since news of the microphone got out, felt justified in printing the transcript in full was a fair indication of its contents. What Colorado has been waiting for for six months turned out to be not a juicy scandal but a feeble anticlimax. Garbled and often wholly unintelligible, the transcript gave Coloradans an interesting insight into the informality with which its elected officials discharge their public duties. So far as private misconduct was concerned, the spiciest bit was a paragraph or two that indicated that Lobbyist Dickerson...
...White's Rosalind; the world's mile-and-a-half trotting record; with a 3:12½ victory in the $15,000 All-American Stake Handicap at the New York State Fair at Syracuse...
...North Beach Airport's completion-its start happily coincides with Fiorello LaGuardia's campaign for re-election-the Mayor of New York, with marked emphasis on the "I" confidently boomed. "Colonel Somervell and I will open it at Easter 1939, in time for the World's Fair." As an afterthought he added-"Why doesn't some smart guy build a hotel here...
...been aware that the Newspaper Guild's unpressed president had not been happy in her columns. Last April, after two Nation writers opposed the Roosevelt court reorganization plan, Mr. Broun declared in its pages: "I'm getting a little sick of the Nation's policy of fair play, and everybody must be heard whether he has anything to say or not." And columnist and magazine had again disagreed in August on the advisability of the Guild's sponsoring issues so far afield as the cause of Leftist Spain without a national referendum...
...well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress with some misgivings; we suspect that the spirit of fair play may search him out and plague him in the pages of the New Republic as well...