Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Hearty congratulations on your fair-minded and unprejudiced article on Mr. J. P. Morgan [TIME, Jan. 20J. In this day when it seems to be so fashionable to editorially damn and assume as "crooks" all bankers, your current article brings a gratifying ray of hope for a cleaner deal from the press to a class that has been outrageously slandered for the last several years. TIME is the last place I would ever look for such an equanimous attitude, but having found it there I offer you sincere felicitations and a hope to find more often between your pages...
...condemn all such investigations. Far from it! But, let the Press and the public recall how many Senators have conducted as honest, fair, searching inquiries into the truth as, for example, the late Senator Walsh in the famous Teapot Dome scandal! . . . JOHN B. LUCRE Atlanta...
...rushed to the Negroes' side with cash & counsel, the Scottsboro Boys were martyrs to Southern injustice and intolerance. To Southerners, the defendants were a gang of "bad niggers" whose crime was being brazenly exploited by malicious Reds, Jews and Yankees. Responsible Southern sentiment indicated, however, that a fair trial might finally be guaranteed if the defense would abandon its obvious air of partisanship. Apparently in response to this feeling, shortly before the trial the Reds involved in the defense had retreated rather clumsily behind a committee of intersectional liberals. To do the actual pleading, an Alabama lawyer had been...
...Crimson skiers are in fair shape, most of them having skied during the vacation and competed in the University Championship race a few weeks ago. Carter and Rogers went to the Conway Carnival last Sunday and are probably in better shape than the others...
Through the first two-thirds of the picture, Eddie Cantor, as Eddie Pink, a timid amusement-park manager embroiled with slot-machine racketeers, gives a fair imitation of Chaplin's famed characterization of a peewee battling gaily against overwhelming destiny. The last third of the picture is a chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats...