Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt was at least beginning to wish a plague on ''both houses...
...authorize employers as well as unions to demand labor elections; 2) to require that collective bargaining agreements be set down in writing and, in case a union fails to live up to a contract, to deprive it of its right of employe representation; 3) to establish a fair practice code for Labor just as there is now such a code for employers. Chief importance of these proposals was as a goad to the New Deal majority, but important for itself was another march stolen last week by Senator Vandenberg. He drafted a new child labor amendment to the Constitution...
...with the late Chancellor Dollfuss, an idol of his even when Dollfuss spilled buckets of blood in putting down the Socialist revolution in Austria. His enemies may question how well balanced George Earle's convictions are, but as a man with strong will to peace and to a fair deal for Labor he was destined to have a hard time when strike trouble spread to Pennsylvania...
Meteorites fall in showers and Harvey Nininger by last week had got his hands on specimens from 77 different meteoritic falls. He pays what he considers a fair price to landowners on whose property meteorites are discovered, whether they are aware or not of the scientific value of the prize. His usual price is $1 per Ib., but he may pay much more than that for unusually fine specimens. He has supplied meteorites to the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Chicago's Field Museum, Manhattan's American Museum, museums in Mexico, England, France, Czechoslovakia...
...taking the opposite side from his father, one of whose opinions was that his son would never amount to much. His mother, who tucked him into bed until his marriage at 33, was the first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious sensuality" with their tender duckings. At kindergarten age he acquired his "abiding penchant for actresses" when Actress Rachel patted him on the head. In clerical college he smarted, did little studying, because the main honors went automatically...