Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State in 1933 providing minimum wage standards for women and children. On the strength of the Supreme Court's 1923 decision, New York's Court of Appeals last March ruled the law unconstitutional. Its supporters hoped that, because it set up a commission to determine "fair and reasonable value of services," whereas the District of Columbia law had been simply a ban on starvation wages, the Supreme Court of 1936 would find it valid...
...claim to celebrate her Centennial. San Antonio, Goliad, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Houston, all had claims, as sites of critical events in the year 1836 (see p. 13). So the Centennial arrangers granted every city and village a right to its own celebration, raised practically every local rodeo, county fair, flower show, milk festival, fiddlers' reunion to the rank of a Centennial observance...
...show is what Dallas advertises, but of that sum $12,000,000 is credited to exhibitors (largest: Ford $2,250,000; General Motors $950,000; Chrysler $500,000) and $5,000,000 to concessionaires. Actual amount put into the Fair by the management is somewhat less than $8,000,000, including Federal, state and city contributions. Head of the Exposition corporation is a hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres...
Three major difficulties stood in the way. First was that the Dallas Exposition comes right on top of two World's Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas...
...suspended by wires. When Orpheus and Eurydice were peacefully reunited, he climbed on top of them, suggesting nothing so much as a Japanese tumbling act. The finale brought laughter which would have driven the hulking, pock-marked composer into one of the rages for which he was famed. Fair-minded critics spared the dancers, who had merely followed their instructions, concentrated their blame on Choreographer Balanchine and his bogus conceptions...