Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago the General tried to salve a chronic NRA sore spot by getting President Roosevelt to decree the cancellation of the irksome price-fixing and "fair trade practice" provisions of the codes of service industries: cleaning & dyeing, laundry, automobile storage & parking, etc. Last week three of the affected industries boldly renounced what remained of their codes. In plain-spoken letters to the White House the cleaners and garagemen all gave the same reason: The benefits of a code had been taken away and only the burdens remained...
...Bishop John Aloysius Duffy: "I must regard the presence of the Rand woman on the stage as an act of public defiance of the Catholic people of Syracuse." Sally Rand's act was cancelled. In Chicago it was announced she would again appear at the World's Fair, this year without fans. Said Impresario Joseph Imbrugio: "It is quite artistic. In fact...
...which has been handed down from Enterprise. Her 165-ft. duralumin mast was made by the Glenn L. Martin airplane plant in Baltimore, shipped North in sections. When he selected her name, Skipper Vanderbilt sentimentalized thus: "Rainbow is an omen significant of rift, and parting of the clouds, indicating fair sailing and better times ahead...
...publicize, and raise money for, his missionary work in North Carolina. Many a Protestant minister travels about the land carrying the Gospel to rural districts by car and truck. But ST. PETER, and its mate ST. PAUL which is currently on show at the World's Fair in Chicago, are the only two chapel cars in all U. S. railroading. Descendant of ST. ANTHONY which was in use 25 years ago, ST. PETER was converted from an ordinary sleeper at a cost of $50.000 by the Catholic Church Extension Society, ablest of Catholic home mission organizations. Eight years...
...publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes en Papier} written when he was 20. was poetic prose. His five subsequent books have all been based on his experience in the Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves to talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting in on conferences with Paul Yalery, Count Keyserling, Aldous Huxley, Jules Romains and some 20 other...