Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which will be shown, on large screens, at next week's reopening of Chicago's Century of Progress. When the First Lady (on the screen) makes an imperative gesture, spotlights will be turned on a great fountain. When the President finishes speaking all the lights of the Fair will blaze...
...drought and fair weather had hopelessly split the delegates. And Britain's Sir Herbert Robson, head of the London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named...
...Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Optimistically he pulled from his pocket a new project to outlaw bombing from the air. But there were exceptions: 1) For police purposes, bombing from the air in outlying frontier regions like northwest India and Morocco will be allowed. 2) It will be fair to drop bombs on submarines...
...famed as "the university president who never went to college," was bed ridden at home. He made his speech of welcome over a special radio hookup. The customary five medals of honor for distinguished journalistic service were presented by the school to: The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, for being ". . . fair and tolerant, liberal . . . accurate . . . generous and kindly . . . progressive without losing touch with the past . . . eminent in Australia and throughout the English-speaking world." The Des Moines Register and Tribune for ". . . artistic and readable typography . . . sound and socially constructive service . . . journalistic enterprise and vigor." The Churchman ". . . for 130 years of highly intelligent...
...ship "Karisruhe" were to dine in Lowell House last night so incensed a few well meaning but misguided pacifists that they planned to stage an audible protest in the form of a Saugus cheer. Word of this nefarious plot reached the ears of a group, who, determined that the Fair Name of Harvard hospitality be unsmirched, constituted themselves a reception committee for Herr Hitler's not so loyal opposition. News of this apparently reached the hecklers, for, upon assembling at the door to the dining room, they detached a scout to reconnoiter. The collective and individual size of the committee...