Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn live poultry business. They stoutly refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked...
From the first Mr. Reno ran into bad showman's luck. When he called his followers to order in the open air amphitheatre of the Iowa State Fair Grounds, they equaled only a fraction of the 18,000 people who were in Des Moines that day to see the 26th annual Drake Relays The sky was dark and a chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long...
...secrets seemed to be keeping nicely, pairs of Germans in light sport planes began coasting across the frontier, flying low over France's defenses and snapping photographs. When this had happened four times in the week, tempers snapped at the French General Staff and Germany received fair warning that any more peeping planes would be dealt with as follows...
...capital as well." And, though such tall stories as the famed German "corpse-factory" were pure fabrications, the mass of Allied propaganda carried the weight of sincerity. "One of the greatest of the qualities which have made the English a great people," says Millis. "is their eminently sane, reasonable, fair-minded inability to conceive that any viewpoint save their own can possibly have the slightest merit...
...Bidding fair to repeat last year's win and to break a few records in the bargain, the Varsity track team will pit itself against the almost untried Princeton cindermen in the dual meet Saturday...