Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average "Dutchman" is blond, fair looking, but great of girth. Men, women and children drink beer with pretzels, attend family (name) reunions. They are slow thinkers, but conservatives, who are easily led by backslappers...
Westbrook Pegler's ''Fair Enough" column appeared last week in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with the following blast: "Genius has followed the election returns in the case of Mrs. John Boettiger, the President's daughter, for she also went journalistic after Mr. Roosevelt's first election and, within the last year, above all the thousands of professional newspaper women in the United States who need jobs by which to live, has been singled out as peculiarly qualified for sub-editorship on one of Mr. Hearst's newspapers." Mrs. Boettiger is women's editor...
Most bumptious reaction came from the American Booksellers Association, still glowing from Doubleday, Doran's triumph over Macy's in the court battle on New York's Fair Trade Act (TIME. March 22). In solemn glee A. B. A.'s Counsel Crichton Clarke called a stenographer, dictated a statement pointing out that no stores in Macy's own trading area would be favored with the new service. "Macy's does not care how much its private brands are cut in other markets," said Mr. Clarke, "but it will not permit them...
...their future to social work in England as soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors sailed for the New World...
...hard worker at 58, boxing's new Boss Jacobs rises at 7, drives his employes hard. He delights in clambakes and steak dinners at his country place at Fair Haven, N. J. His wife, Josie, likes to entertain his friends. They have no children. He smokes cigarets incessantly, drinks much coffee, is a bundle of nervous energy, able to sleep best at the movies although his snoring causes people to poke him and wake...