Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME has in the past few months made reference to the dysentery epidemic in Chicago last summer during the World's Fair. With the 1934 edition of the Fair to open in about a month, people the country over are interested in knowing whether health conditions in Chicago have improved. Last summer's tragic epidemic was carefully and completely ignored by the "free press" of Chicago, allowing thousands of people from all over the world to walk blindly into a dangerous situation that resulted in many fatalities and spread the disease all over the country-a situation...
...abolished the office of Alien Property Custodian established during the War to take over some two billion dollars worth of firms and securities owned by Germans and Austrians, most of which have now either been returned to their owners or dissipated by mismanagement and peculation. ¶ At "street fair" given by the National Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave...
...Germany with 60 days of the close of his case in March, 1933, or else, discharged a free man once more. His plea for not being deported to Germany, and in the light of recent happenings it is admittedly well founded, is that he will not obtain a fair trial under the Hitler government because he is of the Jewish faith. And now, and with plenty of legal backing, he accuses the State Department and the German government with failing to heed the extradition treaty, claiming that since he was not deported within the 60-day limit, he should have...
There are 11 Sophomore nominees: Anthony A. Bliss, Thornton Brown, Braman Gibbs, Benjamin H. Hallowell, Winchester D. Hardwick, Shaun Kelley, Frederick R. Moseley, Jr., Robert S. Play fair, Thomas H. Quinn, David W. Schoonmaker, and George T Skinner...
Last week Big Business and its staff of auditors bustled to present a fair view of profits & losses for the March 1934 quarter. Shot with good accounting practice was the report of U. S. Steel. From actual operations Big Steel had cleared $6,578,000. Interest and extraordinary expenses (representing its share of overhead for ore and shipping properties) ate up some $2,700,000. Steel would still have been able to report a profit had it not then deducted a walloping $10,795,000 for depreciation & depletion. This, of course, was not money out of its big pocket...