Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their teeth, they passed an amendment knocking $2,000 off Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins' $12,000 salary. Administrator leaders had to filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being passed. Finally, assured by Leader Rayburn that he had just talked with the President and could promise "an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project," the rambunctious House agreed to put the bill aside for a week...
...last week it was abundantly clear that Fanny Brice's big little husband,Billy Rose, merits some title-other than pressagents' superlatives-to indicate his uniqueness as a showman. "Fair Doctor" might serve, with the understanding that the exposition managements which seek his services are not necessarily sick but simply want the shot-in-the-arm of financial confidence which the Rose technique provides. Last year when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME...
...chief attractions was Dancer Toto Leverne, who appeared five times a day with no covering other than a stuffed swan (TIME, July 13). When it was decided to carry the fair into its second season, Manager Lincoln Griffith Dickey thought that perhaps hundreds of almost naked girls might be a better prop than one entirely bare one. The logical man to call in was Billy Rose. His contract was reported to be $100,000 for 101 days...
...Picketers pictured with placards reading "LEHMAN BROTHERS ARE UN- FAIR TO GOLDMAN SACHS...
...through which was pumped a grimy mixture of water and pulverized coal. Purpose was to demonstrate the possibilities of pumping coal from the mines, an idea which was pronounced feasible in its day by men like Frick and Carnegie, and won an award at the Chicago World's Fair...