Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognize, of course, that in order to do justice to me as an individual it would be necessary for you to depart from one of the basic policies of your publication, notwithstanding which fact I am entertaining the belief that your American spirit of fair play will get the better of your prejudices...
Four days later Mr. Sloan had an even bigger project afoot. One of the better things desired by many mill owners, who had been having tough sledding for years, was surcease from cutthroat competition. President Sloan called his Institute members together and suggested that they form a code of fair competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft...
Words help businessmen to get their bearings but deeds mean more. Satisfied with the "principle" laid down by Melon-Cutter Roper, they waited anxiously for the next move in Washington to define "fair" profits, "proportionate" salaries...
...high school. The commissioners for Lewis & Clark County decreed an increase of .85 mills in the local tax rate. A posse was hunting one Henry John Miller, following the murder of a teacher at the State Industrial School in Miles City. The proposed dog races at the State Fair were off. George Miner, agent at the Northern Pacific station, was selling travelers' insurance on false teeth and Paris Cleaners were doing three ladies' dresses for $1. Field mouse kid shoes were on sale at Smithers for $6.75 and rib boil could be purchased at Hennessy Bros...
...greeting cards, mottoes, calendars, bridge score pads, trade papers in which he has sung of machine tools, electric toasters, coal breakers, Mergenthalers, vacuum cleaners. He has bombarded the quality magazines. Harper's stood out against him five years, Century ten, Scribner's twelve, Atlantic, 28. All succumbed except Vanity Fair which he is still attacking. It is nothing for Minstrel Braley to turn out six verses a week for a newspaper syndicate, four for trade publications, while keeping 25 to 60 in the mail as a matter of routine. On an average, a "poem" is rejected eight times, travels...