Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fetched but equally fabulous was his campaigning last week when with the same urge that drove Alf Landon to invade New Deal California, the President took a swing through anti-New Deal New England. One fair autumn morning he woke up aboard his special train in Providence, and began greeting people: Mrs. Roosevelt who had arrived before him, Rhode Island's Governor Green and a fine figure of a man in a cutaway and topper...
...send them by merely dispatching the code number of the message with the addressee's name, the sender's signature. But Mr. Willever had not yet applied a special rate to the pre-fabricated telegram. It remained for the second summer of the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 to provide that wrinkle. To the throng of sightseers Mr. Willever offered form telegrams of greeting to be delivered for 25? anywhere in the U. S. So successful was this stunt that this year all Western Union "fixed texts" were put on a fixed rate basis...
...gigantic proportions. A recurrence of the terrifying tactics of the general strike of 1934 can only breed the fear and distrust of the people as a whole and alienate the opinion of those who might logically support labor's claims. The principles for which the unions are crusading, namely fair treatment in hiring employees and decent wages and living conditions for seamen, are as sound as Gibraltar...
Growing steadily in popularity both in New England and New York waters, Frost-bite racing bids fair to become a fixture among Harvard nautical men. Already this year the Crimson has been in competition with M. I. T., and a week from Sunday is scheduling a four-boat team race with Williams. Sailing will probably continue until the ice sets...
Noel Coward is brilliantly demonstrating himself to be about the most agile person on the stage. He can even beat out a pretty fair tap dance but that isn't exactly what's meant. It's the verve and vigor that underlies that ventriloquist's dummy manner of his, that sets one grinning with admiration...