Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specifically to keep prices of farm products high, but we do want to see to it that the farmer gets his fair share of the national income...
...troops to police the Rhineland. Cried he, "A typical example of French feminine mentality! . . . Suppose that France had demanded that we should allow niggers and Moors in French uniforms to garrison Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Seaford, Brighton and Worthing. . . . As a purely ethnological fact one might argue that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Berbers of Morocco, and the Riffs, who are in fact the last remnants of the Teutonic Vandal Kingdom of Northern Africa, are better white men than the little dark scum of Southern France...
...observation platform Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson spoke his good wishes into a microphone which gave him a nationwide audience. Without topcoat or hat but wearing white gloves was fair-haired Leopold Stokowski, exulting not only over the tour to come but because there is a prospect of a European trip next season. Cameras clicked rapidly while Frances A. Wister of the Orchestra Board presented Conductor Stokowski with a fox-terrier pup named Nipper. The New York Philharmonic players sent money to buy each of the travelers a beer. Led by Trumpeter Saul Caston, the Orchestra's brasses blew...
...years outside interests proposed and counterproposed, stockholders and creditors wrangled among themselves and with outsiders. Most likely plan was offered in 1934 by Bowater's acting for a Beaverbrook. Bondholders were offered new bonds for principal and cash for the interest. Banker McGregor's committee thought this fair enough. The Plan fell through, however, when stubborn preferred stockholders blocked approval. Still undaunted, Banker McGregor dug in again and waited. By this time, because of his insistent demands for 100? on the dollar, the dogged banker had earned the title "Par" McGregor. Last week it was apparent that...
...present time the President's genial press conferences have kept him in favor with the rank and file of reporters, leaving such incorrigibles as Mark Sullivan and Frank Kent standing out like sailing ships at sea. But the spirit of fair play is lacking when particular people are singled out for official venom. If the Democrats get a vote of confidence next fall, they will continue in office with the deep distrust of the large body of people that have fallen victim to the blackjack blows of press-agent Michelson and his White House scribes...